Struggling after mat leave

[workwoes1]

NC for this. I'm feeling awful. I have been back at work FT after being on mat leave for 1 year and I'm struggling. I have quite a high pressured sales job. Too well paid to give up or consider a big career change. I know having a job and being well paid makes me privileged in these times, I really do:
But I can't cope. It's too hard. I miss my DD. My mental health is suffering so much. I don't know how to go on.

Any possibility of going part time even for a few months to give a bit of balance of work and looking after your child?

Ultimately if it's not a job that you can afford to give up then I think you need to find a way not to catastrophise it in your mind. Take it one day at a time, you just need to get through that one day and then you get to spend time with DD again when you get home. You'll also find you look forward to seeing her and value the time you spend together all the more because there's less of it. It does get easier as time goes on, but it's definitely hard to begin with. If you haven't given it very long, try to give things a bit longer to settle into a routine and you might find the new normal isn't so bad after all.