I find your comment rather offensive myself. You're trivializing the experience that I had because you know people who have had it worse. That's just ignorant.

I find your comment rather offensive myself. You're trivializing the experience that I had because you know people who have had it worse. That's just ignorant. I'm sorry that your friends are having a hard time of it, but that doesn't mean you know anything about my situation. Obviously, they're dealing with much more extreme cases than I was. I would guess, though, at some point they were in a position (as I was) where you could snap out of it with a firm jolt to the system. I didn't write this as a guide for anyone with burnout, or with the hopes that it would be accepted into the fucking DSM-IV as a case study. I just wanted to share my experience... mostly for catharsis, but also in the hopes that someone feeling the same way would read it and do something to make a change.