How do you deal with burnout? I feel so drained.

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I've been streaming for 2 months now. At first, it went well. Averaged around 5 viewers and even became eligible for affiliate. But all of a sudden things went downhill and now I'm not getting any viewers whatsoever. Maybe it's ego, but I put a lot of work into streaming and posting to other platforms and editing clips, and to see little to no payoff is incredibly hard to deal with.

Add onto that that I've seen and met many other streamers who have been streaming for the same amount of time as me or even less and are doing much better than me, and I won't lie, I get a little jealous. It's like I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be and somehow everyone else is getting growth and success and I'm not. I just don't get it. I upload clips to other platforms and some of them get thousands of views and dozens of likes, I put my twitch handle in them but they don't convert any viewers. I even multi stream to multiple platforms. I even have a set schedule. I'm really doing everything.

I'm a variety streamer and I understand the difficulties with that. I'm trying to find my niche. I feel like I'm honing in on indie games and story games and maybe horror games, there's a lot of overlap there so it gives me a lot to work with in terms of variety.

It leads me to wonder if it really is just luck as many say. I'm beginning to feel like I'm doing something wrong even though I follow everyone's advice as best I can. I feel like I'm not cut out for this even though people tell me I'm entertaining and that I should keep going.

I feel like no one wants to talk about the burn out because it's not a glamorous part of the game. I've been feeling so drained lately. Talking to myself with no chat is very difficult. I keep telling myself to keep going because it may get better but I don't know if that's true.

Has anyone even went from 5 viewers to 1 before? How do I fix this? How do I deal with the burnout? I feel like it's beginning to affect my mental health a bit, I've felt depressed and fatigued.