Hi I’ve been lurking on here for a few days now, I came to see what it was about after seeing someone on her grid post say how disgusting this site was.
I started following Hinch when I became pregnant. I started extreme nesting/cleaning obsessively. I suffer from depression and after my male boss treated me badly due to being pregnant I quit my job and was stuck at home. That’s when it started. I followed Hinch for tips and never saw anything wrong.
But since having my daughter I have struggled. I have felt like an inadequate mother. She is 9 weeks old. Most of her life she has been on lockdown, I miss my mum. My partner is a chicken farmer so is a key worker and always at work.
Until lurking and reading a lot of your comments I didn’t realise hi k there was anything wrong with hinch. I thought there was something wrong with me.
why can’t I be kept up all night with a screaming colicy baby and not keep the house spotless and smile all the time? Why I am I not always happy and she is? I’m not stupid I know she has money and 24/7 help but in my head I should have been more like her. I’ve bought all 3 of her books. I’ve always been a list maker because of my depression and dyslexia/dyspraxia I’ve always needed visuals to keep track of things.
Keeping the house spotless was a lot easier when I was pregnant even though I had morning sickness that lasted all day for the whole pregnancy but that’s because keeping busy stopped me being sad.
but now...I’m not sure if following Hinch is actually helping or hindering my mental health when getting through each daykeeping this tiny thing alive as well as myself takes every ounce of energy I have.
sorry about my weird rant, I also think I have pnd but I’ve always had depression soit could just be my bog standard normal depression