Hold on a second: I spoke with 5 usually sparkly, warm, energetic colleagues/friends today (who don't know each other). All of them (!) told me they feel really depleted; (close to) burned out & I've read it here too. Here's my view; what I wish Idve understood earlier: [1/5]

We take various roles that make up and form our sense of 'self'. E.g. for me; friend, wife, (grand)daughter, sister, teacher, student, teacher, scientist, mentor, mentee, & so on and so forth. [2/5]

Roles are defined by context. But right now, there's little (physical) contextual differentiation: we're either forced many roles at once (e.g. lecturing & doing work w husband here) or we have difficulty switching so we take 1 role & ignore/push away others. [3/5]

We get exhausted from being in 1 role all the time &/ not really taking any one role (e.g. my scientist usually rests when I'm a wife). Either way, with the contextually set boundaries allowing all roles proper time on and off, we risk losing our (sense of) self. [4/5]

Probably much easier said than done, but if we do not want to massively burn out, imho, I think now is the time to become aware of our roles and admit we cannot be all or just one. We need proper time and space for all of our roles. [5/5]