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Mental health + Academia --- Do things get better mentally?

Hi all,

I've experienced a general decline in my mental health over the last 12-18 months or so while in grad school. I just finished up my second year of graduate school and I'm seeing a therapist on campus to help me through my mental health issues.

My question for you all: With appropriate therapy/counselling as needed, has your mental health gotten better while progressing through your career in academia?

I understand that the work load probably won't change much: I expect being a professor at an R1 university will entail working \~45-50 hours per week (as I do now). I expect there will be some balance of teaching, research, applying for grants, giving talks, mentoring my students, and general department work (in most ways the similar to as I do now, with some differences). I understand that there will be pressure to publish and to take on a large workload to secure tenure...but does it get a bit easier on you mentally? 

When going through days where my mental health is particularly bad, I find that my deepest, darkest worry is that I will always be struggling with my mental health as badly as I am now. Those moments are pretty scary - and it's a shame, because I really love what I do and most of work that comes along with it. There is just this constant pressure to perform at 100% all hours of the day, all days of the week so I can finish this derivation/start writing that paper/email that pesky collaborator that has had their priorities elsewhere/etc. It's really weighing down on me. 

Any thoughts on the matter - or any anecdotes that you'd care to share?

Thanks!

Edit: added a sentence of extra details.
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Speaking as a senior professor, yes and no.  The pressure stays high until you get tenure and by that time, working like crazy is a habit.  And 45-50 hours is a light week.  BUT, you will earn a decent wage and you have a ton of flexibility relative to any other career.  That flexibility provides the opportunity to have a good work/life balance.  It is incumbent on you to take advantage of it in ways that keep you mentally and physically happy.