A closer look
What if your 'lazy phase' is actually your body hitting the emergency brake on overload? Chronic exhaustion rarely feels heroic; it feels like scrolling, zoning out, and missing basic tasks. Burnout often shows up first as a motivation problem: work that once felt challenging now feels absurdly heavy, emails become mountains, and your free time turns strangely empty. You are not too tired to watch videos, but somehow too tired to reply to a text. That mismatch tricks you into calling yourself weak. In reality, your system is conserving energy by killing off anything that is not urgent. Ask yourself: do you feel better after resting, or just less guilty? If your 'rest' never restores you, you are probably not lazy; you are running on a battery that never gets to fully charge.
