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Originally Posted by Lauliza
I don't think you're doing anything wrong, other than maybe expecting too much from yourself. I've been in similar situation - worked 32 hours a week, was separated, taking classes, have 3 kids (one with ASD and what looked like ODD at the time), bad finances and no help. It was awful. I had to change something, one thing being my course of study. You shouldn't give up your dreams but is there any way to compromise? Like school part time? That was the therapeutic advice I got that was most realistic...that you can't do it all. You need to take care of yourself in even the smallest of ways. I feel for you. You still have more stress than I did but I can still relate.
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Thank you, yes, it definitely sounds like you know what this is like.
The thing that sucks is my T and I were focusing *hard* on me letting go of things, not taking on too much. I took a TON off my plate to enable me to do college, and then I started leaning more on my husband and in-laws for help and giving myself permission to not be everywhere, all the time, to take some me time, to prioritize.
I was really happy with my success
But then, they cut 6 of my 14 person team at work and increased the workload.
After that, all my classes at school changed.
So... right when I thought I'd be doing really well, things got worse.
I do need to rebalance. I must rebalance.
Today I was literally thinking- the only free time I have to cut is using these boards, sigh, like... if I wasn't on psychcentral, I'd have a little more time, how awful is that.
Working from home though and dealing with a lot, I value my interactions here.
Sigh.
I will reread all the posts here and keep trying to figure it out. Sleep will help, I'm sure. I'd like to see how I feel if I could even just get one week of good sleep, like 7 hours a night instead of 5. That's a good goal for me right now.