I want to tell you something that took me a long time to understand. Burnout didn’t just exhaust me emotionally. It went after my body. There was a period where I was achy in a way I couldn’t explain. Not ill exactly, but not right. My energy had dropped to a level that sleep wasn’t fixing. Then the anxiety arrived without a clear reason, and behind it came a low, flat mood that settled in like fog and stayed. Many of what I experienced mirror what's described as fnd symptoms