[antman]

It is an opportunity to realise how your life was devoured by your work. Social cyclss, interests, non instant gratification pleasures need time to develop.

Had an opportunity to move away from your family for better work? Ofcourse, but also a trap. Don't need friends, work pals are enough? Only while you have common experiences outside the work environment, then people will stop calling.

Figure out hobbies that create whithout expecting to deliver something. Cook for the sake of it even if you suck. Find interests that were important 500years ago and will probably be interesting 500 years in the future, they are more probable to be of true human core intetest. Read fiction, read history, write something for yourself, write something for your family. Walk out enjoy a stream, a faraway countr, 3rd world if possible. Find interest in doing stuff without outsourcing the decision making process to your superior or to the marketed hobby du jour. Good luck.

If everything is meh and one prefers dulling the mind through anxiousness then therapy also helps.

[randomopining]

Yeah something happens where the achievement in the arbitrary job becomes a main dopamine driver. You feel like you're progressing by getting stuff done fast, but really you're just on a hamster wheel working for some big company.

You gotta use your time off to do other stuff. That's why people travel etc, because it changes your environment, people, food, etc. It lets you step out of that daily routine and mental pathways and feedbacks.