What do you mean?? I took one whole day off! Why am I not immediately recovered from years of barely scraping by at subsistence level???
I’m taking 6 weeks off when I graduate in June and my therapist has said, “That’s a good start, but you have to understand this is your first time resting against a debt of 20 years of burnout… Time off is great, but you’re not going to flip a switch and reverse the damage. It’s going to take time and intention.”
READ THAT AGAIN. 6 WEEKS OFF IS NOT ENOUGH… 👀
also, taking a break doesn’t mean filing that time with other stressful activities
what we need after burnout is to do something completely different during time off, and then (if possible) not return to the burnout-causing activity afterward
Come march I’ll be at a year
I’m… it’s only in the past few months that I’ve STARTED to feel a LITTLE better
ALT