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Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

How do single parents cope?

I’m so done in, I’m jobless and having to rely on universal, my toddler is feral and has a touch of autism, she literally has a mental break down over everything, even a simple “no don’t that please”, it’s exhausting constantly having to calm her down, especially when you’ve been doing it all day and you’re running on empty, my neighbours must think I’m skinning this child alive with how loud and dramatically she screams when she’s crying. Her biting, kicking and hitting is getting out of control I can’t get a handle on it, her dads not in the picture or even available as he “decided that the army is his best pathway right now” training consists of 8 month of him being away and never available to take her, and after he passes out hill be living down near London, I feel like he decided to go to the army as an excuse to not have to be a parent and to run away from responsibilities, my family live in a different country and never make the trip to come see me or my daughter but always ask “when are you flying over to visit us?“ anytime we call, babies dads side of the family is not involved either, I don’t have any friends to that could or would help, right now things are so hard most days I end with crying because I can’t see it ever getting better. I honestly feel so broken and so alone. I keep wishing I had either the money to have someone watch her so I could go make us a better life or had family or friends to take her so I could work and give her what I never had.