I ignored burnout until I could not get out of bed
I told myself I was just tired. For about eighteen months. Then I could not get out of bed for a week. Took unpaid leave. Could not tell anyone the real reason. The doctor said burnout is a process, not an event. The event was just where I noticed it. The process had been running the whole time.
I have lost the same fifteen pounds maybe seven times. New plan, six weeks of discipline, a slip, a slide, a year of nothing, repeat. I can recite macros from memory. I have three gym memberships across two cities. The mechanical part is not the prob...
I had been okay for years. Then a hard month became a hard quarter became a year I mostly do not remember. I stopped answering messages. I stopped showering some days. The thing that scared me most was how reasonable it all felt while it was happenin...
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