[geswit2x]

Burnout here years ago. Accompanying depression and anxiety disorders.

It's not about what you actually do or don't do, it's more about how you manage your life and what your view of everything is. I haven't really been the hardest working or the most productive.

I feel like people who say that, it's like a way to compensate for that failure by projecting an image of super hard working people who have reached exhaustion or great competitive athletes who have reached failure. And I think that no, you can get burnout with a bad management of your life, your way of thinking, and with some really bad habits, and above all "stress that has not been successfully managed" [0].

I have recovered (or so I think) but I can't make as much mental effort as before, I feel that I reach my "limit" earlier, and that if I continue I can end up the same as before. But I can work on long term projects being constant. But I feel that I can't push myself like before.

[0] https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...

[roeles]

Perhaps you are simply more aware of the warning signs?

[catsarebetter]

Sorry to hear about that, hope you get better.