[dfraser992]

Go to a psychiatrist if you think you need medication, but everything else people are recommending are things that would be more efficiently done by talking to a psychologist/therapist. I am dealing with burnout myself right now, and as I've had therapy before, I was able to utilize those skills I learned in getting myself through the first 6 months.

But... understanding myself didn't help with avoiding the trap I fell into that caused all this - I got screwed over by a 100% sociopath, and even though right now I can "see" how my blind spots were preventing me from properly dealing the situation, I still am going to go to a therapist to work out not the "understanding" of what went on, but to deal with the emotional impact of it all - it is much easier to do so with the help of someone and not by yourself

I'm certainly not recommending years of therapy - tell the therapist you're interviewing you see no need for sessions about your mommy and daddy (if you don't think that was a factor). You have a general goal - to get over the burnout, understand how you fell into it, and to figure out the next direction you want to go in (right?). Then a good therapist would draw boundaries around that - e.g. 10 sessions, then check to see how complete the goal is. Thus you need not get drawn into years of psychoanalytical blah blah. IF the therapist pushes you to do otherwise, then they are not the right one for you.

I too am conflicted on what I want to do next, and I need to understand my ambivalence - then hopefully I will get the confidence or energy needed to tackle the problem. But there is no need for extensive navel gazing at this time.