How do I recover when constant survival mode has worn me down?

You can adapt your business through nearly anything, and that very strength has cost you. Living in survival mode for so long, always bracing for the next threat, has quietly worn you thin. That tiredness is not weakness catching up with you. It is the bill for years of vigilance that kept the whole thing alive. You earned this exhaustion honestly. Survival mode is meant to be temporary, a burst of alertness to get through danger. When it becomes your permanent setting, it stops protecting you and starts eroding you, because the body and mind were never built to stay braced forever. The skill that saved your business can, left unchecked, hollow out the person running it. Recognizing that is the turn toward recovery. Start by giving yourself one genuine hour off the watch, where you are not scanning for the next threat. It will feel unnatural, even unsafe, at first. Do it anyway. You cannot refill a well by pumping it harder. Rest is not a reward you earn after the crisis ends; for you, it is the thing that lets you keep going at all.