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What do you do when you’re immobilized?
Mommy’s Weird
By Kyla Cornish
I deal with being overwhelmed in the most ass-backwards way.
I become immobilized.
That means that instead of folding laundry, cleaning the bathroom, writing a blog post, putting away the winter clothes or making Rice Krispie cake, I do nothing.
Sometimes I snuggle up on the couch and watch Scandal.
Sometimes I open the cupboard and binge eat.
Sometimes I cry.
I remember this happening a bit when I was a kid. But, like me, it was small. I never could really label it – I just knew that I didn’t feel quite right.
Now that I’m older, I can most definitely identify the feeling of being paralyzed by everything that piles up, and I hate it. It is one of the few qualities I don’t like about myself; mostly because I like to be able to make sense of my world. This does not make sense to me. Being so overwhelmed that I end up doing nothing sort of pisses me off.
I feel lucky that I can identify it, deal with it and move on. It usually takes a day or two and then I get my shit together. But what frightens me is the idea of a day where I won’t be able to move on. Where I get so immobilized that I have to admit that I am quite possibly depressed.
What about you?
Do you carry something that you don’t like about yourself?
– Kyla Cornish is a “retired” radio Dj adjusting to being a Momma of two children. Main problems? Lack of sex, sleep sanity and an addiction to saucy chicken wings. Kyla has been published in a series of funny blogger ebooks, ‘Life Well Blogged.’ She has also been recognized as one of the Top 25 Funny Moms in Canada and US by Circle of Moms. Then she was kicked out of that contest for cheating. Kyla appeared on the Los Angeles-based television show FabLife on November 2. She also won a baking competition when she was 11 at a 4-H Rally. Find Kyla here: http://www.mommysweird.com and follow on twitter @mommyisweird
