[jonny_storm]

I'm a freelance consultant, and I know all to well the danger burnout represents.

I don't know whether being salaried still confers the level of support it once did, but admitting your situation to management (if it's not unwise) and leaning on coworkers may be the best way to gain relief.

There is a kind of grace in yielding completely to the forces that drove you to your breaking point and acknowledging that mastery over your circumstances is not total. Relieving yourself of the burden, if only a short while, helps immensely, but it needs to be the whole burden and not just a part. In my experience, anything short of this only prolongs the suffering.

Much has already been said that I agree with, and so I offer my support and wish you well.