When you find yourself regressing in your skills or in a state of confusion or disorganization, your impulse might be to panic and self-shame. Before you go down the hole, consider that your regression is a good thing.
How Things Break
The breaking of something is usually the culmination of a process, rather than the inception. Things break the way they are built: over the long arc of time.
What I Learned from Brain Injury, Burnout and Breakdown
The key to sustainable productivity is in the willingness to stop, before you get stopped.