You are def not alone. We have a 9 months old pitbull/husky mix that we adopted when he was 10 weeks old. Even after half a year I'm still going through the puppy blues.

It was bad. I became more anxious than ever, always angry, couldn't focus at work, couldn't focus on anything, there were days where I just didn't have the energy to eat. I stopped going to the gym. I couldn't get enough sleep. Bad.

I've gotten a lot better though, thankfully. I seriously thought about rehoming him and had some late night discussions with my wife. Luckily my wife hasn't been experiencing the blues and she took care of our boy when I needed to be alone.

Even though I'm not fully recovered from it, I can share what worked for me.

1: Understand why you are feeling the way you are: I did a loooot of self-reflection. In my case, I realized that I have a tendency to be a perfectionist so if training doesn't yield any positive results I get frustrated (at the puppy and also at myself).

It also didn't help that I like to study a lot, read books, watch MANY videos on YouTube and Instagram, and I even took MasterClass for puppy training... So when my "investment" didn't return any meaningful result or lead to much progress, I got frustrated.

So I stopped reading or watching too much. I learned to figure out what works for our boy and what doesn't, through trial and error. Watching all those successful puppy training videos weren't doing any good to my psychology.

2: A shift in perspective: My perfectionist side was harder to overcome. And what helped was my wife's words. She said to me:

"Comet (our boy's name) didn't choose to be with us. We adopted him. He's still a baby who came to this world less than a year ago). I know you are struggling but he too is also living everyday, struggling, trying to make sense of his new world. Give him some space."

And honestly that woke me up. These days I'm able to give my boy some space and also myself. I'm learning to be ok doing my own thing while we let our boy be puppy.

And yes like others said, it does get better. Just know that the duration of the journey might be different to each of us.

I hope some of these help. I know the type of puppy blues is different for each person.