I don't know much about your specific situation of course, but I think the answer is "it is more likely to be you but you are not alone". The TL;DR: "if you a

I don't know much about your specific situation of course, but I think the answer is "it is more likely to be you but you are not alone". The TL;DR: "if you are feeling it it's real, but there are other options." I think most programmers don't burn out. There are a lot of programmers whose jobs are undemanding 9-5 and it's all cool. There are a lot of high stress jobs, many unnecessarily so, not just in programming. If you work in certain FAANG jobs you can have enormous stress, but there will be other parts of the company that are laid back (well, maybe not at Netflix). And then of course there are people who will burn out in almost any job. I am one of them, so some degree. I consider it self-inflicted.