Title: Hey HN,<p>Earlier this year I burned out hard and spectacularly, having nothing short of a total breakdown and being forced to take many, many months of medical leave by my GP.<p>My job wasn&#x27;t overly difficult, but the corporate environment I found myself in was something I&#x27;d never done before and it was completely unsuited to me as an individual. It is the worst working experience I&#x27;ve ever been through.<p>I returned to my job late last month and I find that I simply don&#x27;t care anymore. My burnout was never really fixed despite the time off. I&#x27;m unable to accomplish even basic tasks at work now and truthfully I&#x27;m at a point where I don&#x27;t even care if I get fired. In the time I&#x27;ve been back I think I&#x27;ve been able to close one of two tiny tickets, the rest of the time I&#x27;ve literally done nothing.<p>During my time off I&#x27;ve been poked and prodded by psychologists and they seem to think I have ADHD and that it was a large contributing factor to this, though I&#x27;m not completely sure I buy this explanation.<p>I&#x27;m not well off like most people on here, I can survive 4-6 months with no salary, which I&#x27;m likely going to have to consider given my firing seems imminent at this point. I simply don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m capable of maintaining this job anymore.<p>I really don&#x27;t know how to get over this and how to move past it. I feel quite literally incapable of working. My mind knows what needs to be done, but my body says no and I am overwhelmed by apathy. I&#x27;m honestly not sure if I&#x27;m capable of working in tech anymore at this point and that&#x27;s doing quite a number of any selfesteem I had.<p>Truthfully I didn&#x27;t know things could get this bad. I&#x27;m trying to figure out what my future even looks like and how to move past this and any advice would be really appreciated.
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