Recovery from that is not something one can easily handle. It's a long slow and usually painful recovery process that requires deep commitment.
Many of us have experienced burn out.. but some of us have seen worse. Engineering truly can lead you to places that both matter a great deal and remind use we were never enough, we were just the people there at the time. Longer I am in this career the more humble I get as each successive challenge hammers me into something different than I was before.
I love it. But god ... sometimes the choose your own adventure goes awry.