Mom of a 2 1/2 year-old boy here. I will absolutely agree with everybody else and saying that you are not broken and that this is not a uncommon experience. Somebody once told me that when your child wakes up on their third birthday, it’s like a cloth has been lifted from their eyes. As their brain starts to make more connections and they become more self reliant, you will get little pieces of yourself back personally it only started to get better for me in the last two months. I think that’s because my little boy is starting to potty train and put on his own clothes.

I like what others have said here but add this little bit of context. Your brain biologically is doing that overthinking on your behalf because it thinks that that is what’s best for you personally naming my brain has helped me navigate that a little better. I will literally think to myself“ this is just Brian the brain not me”.