You didn't get burned out. You built it.

Nobody gave you burnout.

You built it.

One yes at a time.

One late-night message answered.

One cross-functional request you took on because it seemed manageable.

Each one small. Each one justified.

And then one day the cumulative weight of all of it is sitting on your chest at 6am on a Sunday.

The hard part isn't the burnout.

It's realizing you co-created the system that caused it.

The good news: if you built it, you can change it.

Not overnight. But one pattern at a time.