Just Saturday! Lily was with her mom, so we took advantage and my girlfriend, her siblings, my brother (who's visiting from Germany) and I went to a pool. We just chilled and drank beer and talked SO much. It was wonderful.

Very similar experience over the last 24 months - though I actually burned out a year ago. It was horrible and took me most of 2024 to get out of it. The book that helped me a lot was "The Burn-Out Society" by Byung-Chol Han. It's a little hard to read, but the main thing I realized that I was so programmed on productivity, that I couldn't do anything without it as a goal. I did walks to calm down and be more productive later. I did meditation to be more focused and productive. And so on. There are a few more insights in that book, but that one was the biggest for me. Changed my life quite completely.
I'm glad you noticed the signs and started to work on it before it becomes severe!

Oh, living in a different country also helps. I'm not connected to either politics, nor sides. I'm an expat, so nobody cares about my vote nor opinion. That's a lot less stress, as I read in other people's posts 😅