Even Simple Things Feel Heavy

Dear Delyara, Burnout has changed the weight of ordinary things. A text feels heavier than it should. Laundry feels heavier than it should. Making a decision about dinner feels heavier than it should. Nothing in my life looks dramatic enough to justify how tired I feel, and maybe that makes it worse. There’s no single crisis to point at. No one event to explain why my energy disappeared. It just slowly drained. And one day I noticed I was living from reserve.