u/Mission_Ad_2224

I cannot find a god damn recipe for stews, pies, soups etc. that don't taste better veering from directions.

I'm trying to teach my sons how to cook, but following recipes is just useless.

Baking, absolutely. Follow it.

How do you teach 'trust your instincts'?

Everything we try, they just don't like. Because my home food doesn't follow a recipe. Even if I tried to write it down, it depends on what we have on hand.

Sausage rolls never taste the exact same.

Stew never tastes the exact same.

Soup never tastes the exact same ad naseum....

I find this stupidly frustrating. They can and do follow recipes, they just don't like the outcome.

Do I let them just throw shit into a pot? Because that's where I'm at. See how it goes boys! Just go wild!

To preface - I've had depression and anxiety as long as I can remember. I've gone through some horrible things. At this point in my life, nothing *awful* is happening.

Read book 7 of Harry potter recently, for probably the 15th time. I cried at so many parts of the book, and have never once shed a tear in the past.

I cried watching despicable me the other day with my kids (the part where Margo doesn't trust to jump from the plane to Gru, and hes like 'i will catch you, and never let you go again'), and I've seen that movie tons of times.

I cry when reading the news, or certain posts on reddit (as stupid as wedding posts).

Hell, I just cried about a dude saving a duck.

Things that in the past, may have moved me, but I never cried. It can be happy news, or sad news, and I cry just the same.

Is anyone else going through the same thing? Are we all just exhausted with everything going on in the world? The cost of living, the violence, the uncertainty etc.

Or do I need to see my GP?