I'm sorry you've gone through this. I quit a previous job with no other job lined up because of burnout. Fortunately, I could afford the 4 month gap in employment. My heart aches for those who can't.

Wow this is exactly what i'm suffering from right now... I recently thought about applying to a more serious tech team at my company given i've slowly slipped into a basic DBA/PM roll.

But i'm worried it's only going to make it worse. What does the science or your peers say is the key to getting help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPAGuh6Le8

People are talking about therapy and while I’m in therapy I find that it could benefit from someone who actually understands working in Tech/SaaS. Wonder if others here have felt this while talking to therapists and what they’ve done about it.

That's the point of https://rationaldino.substack.com/ and this pseudonymous account. Separately I have other children who were impacted by COVID and lockdowns and are part of https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g.... That's also been hard.

All of this is made more complicated by the fact that I regard psychology as having a lot of pseudoscience in it. Feynman was right to call them that in https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm. It took them 40 years to realize that he was right about the importance of replication. But they still haven't accepted the rest of what he said.

Try to sleep (or at least stay in bed) 10+ hours a day, consistently for a few weeks.