I wish your comment was higher on the page. I would say you made the right choice to keep working for that extra 6 months post-burnout, because post-burnout tak

I wish your comment was higher on the page. I would say you made the right choice to keep working for that extra 6 months post-burnout, because post-burnout takes minimally 2 years to recover from if you're going to recover at all. For you it took 3, I would bet those extra 6 months factored in, but I'm assuming you didn't have to worry about finances so much during those three years so it may have been a good tradeoff. I second the advice to uncover the causes that are pushing toward burnout, because if they are left to fester then burnout becomes inevitable and post-burnout recovery takes even longer. Exercising more isn't going to fix it. A week vacation isn't going to fix it, a month vacation isn't going to fix it, because when the vacation is over nothing will have changed. The best a vacation can do is delay.