While this might not be the right thing to say, I feel compelled to say it nevertheless: nothing can hurt you unless you give it power to do so.<p>When I was in the heat of it and naturally did not want to work, I eventually reached a place of working zen -- I will try to do what I can, and forget about my imagined needs of this or that. I simply stared at the screen if I didn&#x27;t know the buttons to press. This is the experience that I am proud of and that makes me say &quot;I&#x27;m happy I went through that.&quot;<p>Too often, we mistake our own fears for limitations, and limitations we do have, we treat as if they were unmalleable. While I always want people to look out for their mental health, I also want people to know what it means to give it their all because I know that teaches you how to break through your self-imposed limitations and grow into an even stronger wo&#x2F;man.<p>My advice is to always keep one day for yourself. For me, it&#x27;s Sunday. Sunday, if I want to work, I work (and when it&#x27;s that way, work doesn&#x27;t always feel like work). If I don&#x27;t want to work, no one can say anything. This gives you time to not think at all about work, which should give you time to stay in system 1 and heal.<p>What&#x27;s a real killer is all that unnecessary anxiety and general negative emotions coming from _thinking_ about your work that is hurting you. When you&#x27;re away from work, stop thinking about work. It&#x27;s not prudent or responsible of you to be stressing out about something that isn&#x27;t even going on right now. When it&#x27;s time to rest, you rest. When it&#x27;s time to work, you work. It seems simple, but it&#x27;s the blurred gray area in between the two that affects people the most. When I worked very hard and hit my &quot;work zen mode&quot;, it was here that I began to let go of things like what does my boss think or what does my coworker think or some other-nonsense-BS-anxious-thing that has nothing to do with actual work.<p>I hope it helps. I&#x27;m really no huge expert myself, but I am usually the hardest person in the room.