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Agreed. I don't know what the OP's situation is, and he might need some counseling to deal with an underlying issue, but his intended career move I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone. It sounds like he's burnt out, a little scared, and needs to do some soul searching. Maybe swallow his pride and go back to basics to get some help. If he had said he wanted to do something like become a teacher or tech trade…
The parent comment, though I didn't see it, seems to have sounded incredibly toxic. But to address your sentiment, this is not a permanent career move necessarily and I don't want to sound like I'm taking a career in software for granted. This is part of my attempt to go back to basics, things I missed, things that might help me become better at working in general but also give me some perspective on this field from…
Maybe you can find a non-dev role where having development experience is extremely useful? For example, customer success/support on a SaaS product often is very difficult to fill with human to human contact employees who can diagnose front end bugs a customer might be seeing, run some data queries... stuff that would otherwise result in a long turnaround for an answer by putting in a support ticket with engineering. Support staff with technical chops are extremely hard to find and high value add in enterprise software. I think you can find something more productive that plays to your strengths horizontally in the types of orgs you have been working for instead of dropping in the hierarchy of industry skillsets altogether.