I suffered from pretty severe burnout once, which took me about a year to recover from. Thankfully, I had the means to quit working and change gears to a slowe

I suffered from pretty severe burnout once, which took me about a year to recover from. Thankfully, I had the means to quit working and change gears to a slower life tempo. I started rock climbing again, spending lots of time with my partner, even painting occasionally. One day, I just felt like programming again, for myself, and man was it fun!! I rediscovered the joy programming. I decided to make a change in my work-life. I decided to only take jobs/contracts that I'm excited to work on. For me, that largely means graphics and game-engine programming. It's a tremendous amount of work to learn those skills, but when I'm working on graphics programming I feel like I'm programming for myself 90% of my day's. I guess my advice here is (if you can) walk away, take some time off to recover, and you'll remember why you started programming.