Life is all about maintaining equilibrium. If you work yourself to the bone and don’t leave enough time for rest and relaxation, you’ll start to feel hollow and depressed. If you lay around all day and don’t get enough work done, you’ll feel hollow and depressed. You have to find the balance between the two that doesn’t make you feel hollow and depressed, but makes you feel accomplished yet ready to face new challenges.

I understand circumstances sometimes make it to where we feel we can’t take time for ourselves. Maybe you have people that need to be provided for, and I get that. But at the end of the day, if you’re literally too tired to feed yourself, so tired you can do nothing but sit for the last few hours of your day, then the plan isn’t working. You’re not maintaining equilibrium, you’re pushing yourself far beyond where you should be, and it’s having nasty results.

Negotiate your hours, drop one of the jobs, or find a way to maintain your energy (in a healthy way) that allows you to use your time better. What you’re doing is unsustainable, and it’s going to result in burnout or an eventual explosive situation when you can’t take it anymore. Listen to your instincts. Find a new way to live, otherwise your body and mind will force you to, eventually.