if you are a mom you almost often end up feeling there are not enough hours in the day and maybe thats the reason you have somewhere down the line learnt the art of crunching time taking slack from others and risking your own health to get everything done because if you wont who will rightmothers may try to show that everything is swell but the infamous mothers guilt often gets to them doing the double shift at home and work is stressful for most women besides many women experience guilt by believing that they neglect their families while working in reality motherhood is in every sense the ultimate sacrifice and did i mention super exhausting toomother of two girls and a working mom medha shri shares we moms feel constant tiredness the guilt that we are away while the kid is waiting and when you are too tired to play with them and sometimes when you dont but you know they have been waiting for it the whole day having plans despite knowing their schedule is not fixed as in you think you will sleepread when they take a nap in the noon but they take so much time and energy that you are already tired writer ankita shukla adds juggling between career and baby feels like heartbreak every dayand its not the working mom alone who is suffering not having professional outlets for their education and talent can be frustrating and stressful for many stayathome moms ritu verma who gave up her career to take care of her little one shares there are a lot more expectations from a stay at home mom there is this constant feeling that i am not doing enough i feel my life is not my own and if i want to bring some semblance of normalcy i am judged either by others or by myself the guilt creeps in shares another mom pratibha manrai mothers rarely gets a feeling of having done enough for their kids and that is quite damaging to their psycheanna chandy chair of the live love laugh foundations board of trustees shares i think society lacks concern and empathy towards women who wear multiple hats and often takes them for granted for example very often there seems to be a lack of concern for a new mother while complete focus is given to the baby forgetting that new mothers can be stressed due to the new role as well as the added pressures of managing themselves and another young person society also does not account for the physical and hormonal changes that are part of pregnancy and childbirth women are also expected to be perfect wives perfect caregivers perfect employers perfect employees with no room for error or physical or emotional exhaustionanother reason that women are more predisposed to mental health issues is because throughout their life they are also undergoing biological changes unlike men dr sandeep vohra neuropsychiatrist addiction psychiatrist and adolescent and child psychiatrist apollo hospital