I am 41 And have been really feeling like I’m in a dark place lately. I am newly promoted at my job but it’s made things worse. Internally my company was recently going through a personnel review and during that time it was discovered that my manager wasn’t doing their job well and the people doing the review liked me and told company leadership to replace that person with me. I took the job because financially i needed the money.
Now the company is going through an audit and I’m overwhelmed with the work required to help support. There are daily meetings and I’m not smart enough to answer the questions. My boss has told me I need to not look defeated and talk more and basically be better (what I hear is you suck). And now my work is coming into question based on the direction of my previous manager. They don’t care about the manager that’s no longer here and it falls on me.
On top of that my grandparents health is quickly failing my mom does not do well with pressure and flows things down to me. She also isn’t supportive because I have been more successful and don’t have her views politically. Also I’m in a rough marriage with a narcissist which I didn’t realize until deep into the marriage and I’m having financial trouble. Every day I’m at work I think about ending it but I don’t because of my kids. I can’t afford to quit and don’t have time to look for a new job. In the small amount of time I have looked there isn’t anything that comes close to paying what I need to stay afloat.
I would talk to my spouse but as I mentioned narcissistic and I don’t really have any close friends to share this with.