You're Not Lazy. Your Mind and Body Are Just Done. Introduction The alarm goes off. And instead of the ordinary mild reluctance of a Monday morning, what arrives is something heavier. A tiredness that is already there before the day has asked anything of you. A resistance to beginning that feels less like sleepiness and more like the body simply refusing. The thought of getting up, getting dressed, starting genuinely, disproportionately overwhelming. "Why can't I just get up

You slept eight hours and woke up exhausted. You have a list of things to do and cannot make yourself start any of them. Something that used to excite you now feels like a chore. You are snapping at people you love over things that should not matter. And somewhere underneath all of it is a quiet, persistent voice asking: what is wrong with me? Nothing is wrong with you. But something important is signalling that it has been running on empty for too long. Emotional burnout is