Disaster of your own making? How (not) to handle burnout

I’m tired.
Not like I-need-a-nap tired. I mean drained-of-all-resources tired.
As a designer, one of my biggest thrills is a blank space. It’s my job to take that blank space and fill it with things that have never existed. I synthesize information and shape it into something not only beautiful and unique but also useful and impactful. I rely on my primary tools of creativity and experience — ephemeral, hard-to-quantify elements borne out of experimentation that have no contain