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When resting feels like losing yourself instead of recovering

When I finally stop and sit down, I don't feel relief, I feel like I'm disappearing. I've built so much of myself around work that resting doesn't feel like recovery, it feels like losing who I am. So I get up and find something to do, because stopping feels a little like ceasing to exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've tied yourself so tightly to work that rest feels like loss.

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