My personal burnouts always ended up with visits to ER, so I kind of got lucky there. Why lucky, you say? Because I had legitimate sick leave for those, and go

My personal burnouts always ended up with visits to ER, so I kind of got lucky there. Why lucky, you say? Because I had legitimate sick leave for those, and good luck finding and employer who will recognize, empathize and treat your burnout as a regular illness. It usually just spirals out of control until it kills everything around it.