I still complete the day, but I do not really feel in it

Dear Delyara, Burnout has made me strangely successful at seeming okay. I can still get through the day. That’s part of why it goes unnoticed. Tasks get done. Replies happen. The practical world remains mostly unconcerned because output continues. But internally, I often feel absent from the very life I’m maintaining. That is what scares me. Not failure. Not collapse. Absence. The sense of spending whole days in motion without really arriving inside them.