PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.
Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.
@dznz personal, anecdotal addition: it feels like you never recover. More like some lifelong trauma that hurts in the back of your heart and stays with you. Burnout also comes with a huge loss of trust for me, since I was raised with stories of how effort and giving would be rewarded at work. Now they haven’t and it still makes me feel like the whole system betrayed me, a decade and a lot of therapy later.
Only give everything for yourself. Never to a company.
@danielsreichenbach tell me about it. And often our own loyalty to our colleagues is used against us to draw us in.
I hear you about that loss of trust, and the trauma. And yet somehow we have to carry on, not succumb to bitterness, and to find a way to live with the heartbreak and transform our anger into useful change for ourselves and others.
But first, and ongoing: self-care.
Daniel
Daniel S. Reichenbach