Thank you for your kind message. So far, every single time I’ve taken a 1-2 week vacation, it’s been an extremely positive experience, I truly felt alive during the time off, and even my partner routinely comments how I am a brand new person on vacation.

But, coming back to work after such vacations has always been a gut wrenching experience and I felt much, much more depressed than normal for several weeks until reverting to the “baseline” depressed state, to the point where I even seriously considered not going on vacations anymore until I quit for good. For this reason I never related to people saying “a vacation recharges one person for new work challenges”. I can just speculate how the idea of coming back to work after one year off would feel.