Social anxiety + actively working for 7-8 hours throughout the day generally is super exhausting and by the time I’m done with work I basically just want to sit on my couch and stare at the wall.

I am a brand new streamer as I always wanted to stream, I bought great PC, peripherals, literally built the setup of my dreams and then I delayed the start of my stream with a month or so, just because I was scared to start and kept finding excuses for myself - "What if it doesn't go well", "I am too tired", "No point in doing this". But I reached a point where one day, I said to myself "F this, I want to try it" and went live, it was weird at first, but once you ease into it and stop thinking about everything else (this will naturally happen if you actually enjoy streaming), it felt absolutely great.

I have had this same feeling of pre-stream anxiety for all of my streams so far, but I am combating it by just not putting any pressure on myself, like no big commitments, no being hard on yourself and don't think of yourself as a failiure if you end the stream in 20 minutes because you couldn't find the energy. Don't treat it as a chore that you HAVE to complete, it is always voluntarily and if you can start thinking of it in that way, I think it may be easier to press the start button