"burnout" can be anything from mental exhaustion to stress induced psychosis, and should be treated like any bodily injury - like you're not going to be playing

"burnout" can be anything from mental exhaustion to stress induced psychosis, and should be treated like any bodily injury - like you're not going to be playing tennis soon after a severe ankle sprain, and possibly never again at the same level after a nasty wrist break. mental injuries are real and take time to heal but when you don't realize this you just keep playing tennis on your sprained ankle and turn a small injury into a big one. it feels like you can't learn, can't work, can't remember - this is just your body protecting itself, your ankle is wrapped. you have to listen to your body and give your mind a break before it takes one.