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Best of Anxious Achiever: Pressure, Achievement, and Self-Compassion

The Anxious Achiever

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The Anxiety of Not Taking Time Off

I hadn't taken a vacation in five years, which is my own doing. Nobody was stopping me from taking a vacation. I just never took one. You know, it was a period where probably the depression and the anxiety combined with just being burnt out from not having taken time off all just exploded over this one weekend. And I felt like two people, like one who was living the situation and one outside my body who was watching the situation. But I couldn't stop it. It crippled my personal life and my professional life.

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