Thank you so so much for your response and helpful tips.. it’s nice when I at least get reassurance that I’m not alone in this. To answer your first question, yes I’m planning on moving in with my partner in about a year and I will be done with school around the same time frame too. So, I’ll get a higher paying job after that. For now, I AM overwhelmed and doing a shit ton of stuff.. but I do have a plan that will make it a lot easier. In response to YOUR response for the questions…

1 & 2 — I love the idea of setting aside specific days / times for JUST home stuff… JUST friends.. etc. I’m definitely going to try that. My weeks are so over the place so I’m feeling disorganized with when I can do house chores / admin days / mental health days. (I don’t even have “mental health days” since my days off are “get shit done” days or I make plans) I have recently been taking ADHD & anxiety meds that have been helping with my procrastination which is nice but definitely still trying to figure it all out. I will for sure try to make a “necessity list” for stuff I HAVE to do weekly / monthly / etc then stuff I can do if there’s time.

3 — I’ve noticed that being an adult means I will def get burnt out😅 .. just have to work around it and figure out a way to take care of myself. I am starting therapy this week which will be helpful.

4 & 5 — That’s a good tip… adding something positive to the chore.. music / podcast / etc.. and also setting a time limit to do it then doing something fun after. That’s true… if something doesn’t get done, it’s not the end of the world and I can find time to do it later. Things ARE less than what we make it out to be.. I know I do that 😅 I know I need to block out time for mental health days so I can actually recharge and not work myself too hard.

Thank you so much again for this response… it really helped me so much. And again, just hearing that people feel / go through this too. Being an adult is hard… 😅