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[quote=Anonymous]I am struggling at work and probably need to look for a new job that is a better fit for my skills and my life. 
I have an elementary-age kid who seems to be struggling socially and emotionally and may have special needs in these areas.
I am in a financially okay place but need to be doing a lot more for college and financial planning.
I am married but my spouse is very emotionally limited and really seems to struggle with any kind of stress -- avoids hard decisions or claims "everything seems fine" when I try to have constructive conversations about stuff like financial planning or helping our kid.

All of this is combining to create a kind of paralysis -- I spend a lot of time thinking about and working on addressing these issues but I feel like I go in circles and things never get better. I'm really tired and sleeping terribly. I have been exercising almost daily because it's the best form of stress relief I have but it doesn't seem to be cutting it. I saw a therapist for a while (about a year) and at first it was really helpful to have someone to talk to and express my feelings and feel heard. But therapy doesn't move in a forward direction and eventually it started to feel like one more circular and unproductive thing in my life.

I need some forward momentum and to make progress in at least one of these areas. I feel like if I could figure out one of these things it would loosen everything up and it would be easier to address the others. But because it feels like everything all at once (there are other stressors I'm not mentioning her but they are things that aren't really fixable -- just general stressful things I have to deal with) and I feel overwhelmed so it's like I just run around trying to address it all at once and instead get nowhere.

Any advice from someone who has gotten out of something like this?[/quote]

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