This so wonderfully describes how this whole shitshow has been since March last year. Even a few weeks off work doesn't help because we can't do what we might normally in order to recover. If this is you too, you have my sympathy - I know, all too well, how you feel.
Jess🌻 & Piggly Puff🐷 @mud_and_stars
18 Jun 2021
Does anybody else feel like they’re in a constant state of burnout, and that sometimes the burnout becomes milder, but you never fully come out of it? I have no idea how to recover, and there’s never enough time and space to do so. Life is exhausting.
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The best thing I did this year was finally quit my job. In the 3 weeks I was "funemployed" the anxiety relief was almost palpable, knowing I never had to go back to a job that had been destroying me, with the last year just peppered on top.
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Replying to @jogbert
Fortunately while work is a stressor (it always is) I'm fairly happy where I am - but 3 weeks off sounds like utter bliss. I managed two weeks and I'd say the last couple of days started to actually feel like I was relaxing. So 3 sounds like I might actually recharge a bit.

Jun 20, 2021 Β· 9:24 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
Yeah, whenever I've taken leave 1 week is almost pointless, by the end of a second week I'm just starting to switch off. This time was different because I knew I didn't have to go back so it was strangely almost instant.
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