Not remote but I started freelancing a few years ago out of necessity. At the time I had to put in every hour of the day to make ends meet and I was getting bur

Not remote but I started freelancing a few years ago out of necessity. At the time I had to put in every hour of the day to make ends meet and I was getting burned out quickly. There were no weekends nor a week work, everything blended in and I greatly missed the physical cutoff between work and play. I was also struggling with occasional bouts of depression. It didn't help that my foreign wife was dealing with depression which dragged me into it even further. It was my primary reason for moving to her native country to be closer to her family. Fast forward a year and a half and I still work on my own but now as a consultant. I work at most 3-4 hours per week of actual focused work. The rest of the time I work on side projects that never seem to come to fruition but that's another story. Mental health wise I no longer feel depressed but that may have something to do with having a newborn son who keeps me plenty smiling and a reason to live. I still go to bed late (writing this at 2:15am in my bed) and I think this alone is having a terrible effect on my health but I feel powerless to stop it. These days I am more isolated than ever with zero real life friends and very few old friends I still talk to online. I don't feel the need for human connection as I know spend most of my spare time with my son but that could just be something I tell myself. Truthfully, I want to make friends I can meet with to hang out but it has become somewhat an impossibility with my current work situation and language barrier - not to mention the social barriers put up by people of this society. I am not sure where I am going with this or what the trick is to working remotely... I guess if I think there is one thing that helps, it's that working less is more beneficial than busting your ass day in day out.