How do I break the cycle of burning out over and over?

You have been through burnout, recovered, returned to the same patterns, and burned again, at least twice now, and you can feel the third turn of the wheel approaching. Seeing the cycle so clearly is painful, but it is also the thing that can finally break it. You are no longer surprised by it, which means you can get ahead of it. A cycle that repeats is not a run of bad luck; it is a system doing exactly what it is built to do. Something about how you work, what you take on, or what you believe you owe keeps rebuilding the same conditions. The recovery keeps working and the pattern keeps winning, because recovery restores you to the very setup that burns you. The pattern, not your effort, is the problem. So interrupt it before it completes this time. Instead of waiting to collapse and recover again, name the one belief or commitment that keeps regenerating the load, and change it now, while you still have some room. It may mean disappointing someone or lowering a standard you hold too high. Do it anyway. Breaking the third turn matters more than keeping the pattern that produced the first two.