Hi. I would like to introduce myself, I just joined yesterday. I am 26 year old female with a 7 month old daughter. I have had minor depression ( a few days of being depressed, once or twice a year) since I was in high school. However over the past year I have gotten more and more depressed. I live with my boyfriend of 2 and half years and we have had a very rocky relationship, breaking up and getting back together several times. In fact we had just broken up when I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. We decided to get back together, but I have always had doubts about our relationship. Now whenever we argue it always seems to come down to us breaking up and it is very stressful. Also, I have been having a lot of trouble connecting to his family and making new friends. We live in a college town and I moved here to go to school and never planned on staying here. I really want to move closer to my family and friends, who are over 3 hours away. His family lives near us, but we don't get along very well. I am shy and they think that because of this I don't like them and therefore they don't like me. My boyfriend says he has talked to them about it several times, but there hasn't been any change. I would like to be closer to his family, especially since mine is far away, but they won't give me a chance. Another stressor is that I stay at home with my daughter, and also work part time night shifts. I don't get much sleep on the nights that I work and also have to watch my daughter all day until my boyfriend gets home and than only have a few hours of sleep before I have to go back to work. I hope that working on this program will help me, especially with coping skills, stopping my negative thoughts, and helping get over shyness and social phobias.
