I think there's another component to this that might be worth noting: The more "nothing" you do, the faster you'll want to get back in the game, and the more l

I think there's another component to this that might be worth noting: The more "nothing" you do, the faster you'll want to get back in the game, and the more likely you are to return before you've actually gotten better. I left a really abusive job a few years ago, and was fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but smoke weed and play xbox and "recover", which I did for about 3 months. I think that: 1) I didn't do the things that I needed to do in terms of health (recovery is not wildcard leisure. it's a form of work) 2) Those activities got old fast and cause me to be eager to reenter the workforce when, in retrospect, I had merely forgotten about my problems, rather than solving them. Overexerting your mind/psyche requires mental therapy the same way overexerting your leg requires physical therapy. It's counterintuitive that one should respond to too much work with a new kind of work, but I believe that's the case. FWIW I think Jordan Peterson has some strong advice here around routine and the acquisition of meaning, but that's perhaps not everyone's brand.