[LesZedCB]

burnout is not a competition and this response suggests you may not have learned what you need to from your break....

you can get normal human levels of exhausted without going bonkers unhealthy woeking through it.

OP is a sustainable and healthy tactic

[haswell]

It’s not about competition - it’s about accuracy in communication and clarifying when the advice may or may not be helpful.

If someone is struggling with motivation one day, there are a number of “get motivated” tricks that may help.

If that person is struggling with motivation due to depression, and has been for awhile, that motivation advice is going to fall flat.

Burnout and being “worn out” or “fatigued” are often very different things, despite the fact that the latter two are symptoms of the former.

[parpfish]

i agree. i got my worst bout of burnout while at a very cushy job where i was chronically underworked. it took me forever to realize there was a problem because I had internalized the notion that burnout was another word for fatigue/exhaustion, when they're actually distinct phenomena