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It recently got really bad and a few things helped me. I was feeling a little bored with my job and I really struggle to work from home. I have the option to go to my office just down the street, but I've stayed at home to help out my wife with the kids so she can have better mental health. It's definitely come at a cost to my personal mental health, but her's has gone up a lot since doing this.

But what has helped is changing jobs, but just internally to something more thrilling and fast paced. Also, checking hormone levels regularly with blood tests and if they are off, getting treatment for it. That can effect a lot of issues. Also, I'm going into the office at least once a week now to meet with other members of my team, managers, and to just get out of the house and in front of people where I thrive best.

I still struggle big time with this stage of my life with young kids. It is not easy and I feel like I have sacrificed a lot of my happiness for my kids happiness and also my wife's. I'm learning that I need to first make myself happy if I can be at my best. But doing the same thing day in and day out and being trapped in the home with young kids is not ideal for me the past 9 years of having young kids. Love them, but I'm kind of ready for the stage of life when I can have freedom again with my wife to go out to eat without having to find a sitter and just go out spontaneously on occasion. Sitting down after the kids go to bed watching the same shows every night has run it's course and I've grown very weary of it.