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Why the thought of vacation creates anxiety instead of excitement

My family keeps asking when I'm taking time off but honestly the idea of having nothing to do for a week terrifies me more than working through another year.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Rest has become so foreign that it feels like a threat to identity rather than a restoration of it.

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