I think part of the reason you're not progressing is your exercise selection and volume. To me it looks like you cannot exclude any exercises you deem "the best", and try to fit them all into your scheme.. So soon thereafter, you burn yourself out.. Especially mentally walking into the gym with the idea that you have to hit a certain weight on each exercise and go for PR's.. Almost two years ago, I could not do a program that didn't have pendlay rows in it LOL. And that hindered my progress bigtime. There's also been many times where if I didn't hit a PR that I felt "let down" a bit because I base my workouts solely on increasing strength with those ME lifts.. Of course, that's completely wrong to think that way, and since then a lot of my success has been contributed to letting go of always looking for something better.

I would focus on your first exercise with low reps. You do NOT need to always go for a PR either. Just focus on getting the work in with your strength levels for THAT DAY. The rest of your workout you can focus on whatever supplemental exercises you want so long as you continue working on increasing the weight. They certainly don't NEED to all be sets of 5's either by any means. It anything, trying to keep the intensity so high for every exercise (and you picked all compounds) is part of the reason for the lack of progress.

For example, you do your deadlifts, then front squats, then standing OHP's to top that off (standing ohp is another full body lift). Personally I don't know too many people who can handle that kind of workload.

You need to stop thinking in terms of "here's exercises I'll die without and they all have to somehow fit my scheme" and start thinking in terms of PROGRESS supersetted with RECOVERY. Will you be lesser of a man if you focus your intensity on deadlifts, then move onto a high rep leg press vs. another free squat? Or using pullthroughs for your hammies vs. an SLDL? Or a couple of sets of 10 doing pulldowns vs. pullups? My point is simple. If you know that after that first exercise you'll be putting in some volume with more managable exercises without any added pressure of the infamous "PR", how likely are you to finish the workout strong and not start skipping exercises and getting down on yourself?

Is your CNS done or are you just mentally burnt out from putting so much expectations on yourself? If you were to go back in the gym with a much more managable format and the expectation that you're going to go only heavy enough to get the work in so long as you increase the weight weekly, would that lead to a more effective workout?

Finally, I hate to say it, but online journals are a big reason why so many people either do too much or fail. You're meeting perceived expectations and do not want to write down that you failed at a certain weight or that you did a few sets of curls when they aren't "optimal" or "popular". It's almost a kind of "peer pressure" to where you feel almost obligated to get those 10's on the bar instead of what YOU needed which was the 2.5's.. Or picking standing OHP's for sets of 5 vs. something "easier".

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