I posted a while ago about taking a lower-stress, lower salary job. I am currently working in a post which is very well paid, but is very stressful, I'm not well suited to, and is causing me a great deal of anxiety. My mental health has been suffering, and I'm really not getting much enjoyment out of life.
I have the opportunity to step down into a role in the same firm, a post I would enjoy and have the skillset for, but is much lower paid.
I feel I can't go on the way I am - I have had increasing thoughts of self harm lately - but in giving up so much in salary I am really letting my family down. We would still have a decent household income, but we would have to make economies that we don't really need to right now. I am worried that this will lead to resentment later on, that we could have had a better life but I couldn't hack it?