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Burnout finally caught up with me and I cried in a bathroom stall today

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I've been running on caffeine and to-do lists for two years straight. Today a tiny thing went wrong at work and I just folded. I locked myself in a stall and cried until my face went numb, then walked out and pretended nothing happened. I keep telling myself rest is for after the deadline, but the deadlines never stop coming. How do people actually recover from this without quitting everything?
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