Just in case the occasional anti-games mentality rears its ugly head around here: whilst there are lots of good suggestions coming up, games are certainly a pretty solid way to relax too.<p>In the last couple of months I&#x27;ve been recovering from mild-to-moderate burnout symptoms myself, and a lot of how I&#x27;ve been doing that is playing The Witcher 3. It works. (It probably helps if the game you&#x27;re playing is one of the most astonishing artistic creations of the last couple of years, to be fair.)<p>The big thing is this: you can&#x27;t force it. One plausible explanation for burnout is that it&#x27;s a defense mechanism from your subconscious against excessive delayed gratification: if you&#x27;re very self-disciplined and work very hard on something that you think will give you rewards in the end, but doesn&#x27;t whilst you&#x27;re doing it, then don&#x27;t get those rewards, after a while you start building up subconscious resistance to doing that again.<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re not too long away from the death-march project. If so, just give it some more time of <i>not trying to do things</i> (counter-intuitive and often scary for highly motivated people, I know), and see how you&#x27;re doing in a month or two.