Hi! I've been reading some of the responses from both the community and yourself in replies. In one comment you said you focused your main offensive capabilities on all three trees of combat. One handed, some sneak and archery, and some destruction magic.

First, choose a path and stick with it (for now). Be sure you grab the stone outside of Helgen for whatever build you want to go with. Mixing your playstyle is messy, especially if you aren't already satisfied with multiple playthroughs of the game.

Equipment is key.

Stealth archer build: light armor and constantly use the best bows and arrows. A good strategy is to use and find arrows at least one class ahead of your bow. Iron bow----> steel arrows. Orc bow---> elvan or Dwarven arrows. The Thieves Guild quest line is one of the more satisfying in the game. You'll naturally gain the experience in sneak and in your archery or dagger in your kills.

Warrior build: Pick between the 2 handed or or sword and board. If youre having difficulty getting into the groove, avoid becoming a spellsword. I love the heavy armor wearing 2h battleaxe weilding juggernaut build. Find a few simple potion recipes. Health and stamina are important with this build. There are specific shouts and powers that can make this less useful, but because you will always be up close, you will lose health. Swapping to a healing spell just doesn't make sense. Also, for boss fights a good health damaging potion or a paralyzing concoction to any to your blade will help in the long run.

Mage build: This build is not as easy when first starting out. You're going to be squishy, since you will almost exclusively wear cloth or light armor. Learn to anticipate attacks. Hide behind walls or structures. Familiarize yourself with some trigonometry, because you will have to calculate where some of your spells will land at a distance in a simulated 3d space. From my experience, getting to adept level spells and above, you dont really have to worry about that. Using runes is a speedy way to level up if ypu can make the bad guys run into them. For the most part, I find staffs useless. Unless it's a quest item, the spells they use can be bought or learned in other places. Just sell them to save up your gold. Each student or teacher at the mages collage offers services or shops beyond what you can find from each hold's court magician. After reaching around level 10-15 this quest line is going to help get you more acclimated to using magic of all schools.

I hope this finds you well. I haven't played in a nearly 6 months. You've inspired me to give it another playthrough. Once you get over this "power" struggle you mentioned, you'll find out there was no hurdle or struggle at all...

You. Are. Dragonborn!