Yes they happen to us.
Yes they’re common. Common like the common flu.
When you don’t take care of yourself for a long extended period of time and keep exerting yourself/applying yourself to something. They happen.
When you become ignorant thinking that it’s laser focus.
There’s a silent decay growing, that will come and hit you one day.
One day you’ll not be able to exert yourself anymore.
The problem is not really the disease, or the fall.
The problem is that sometimes you might not be in a state of awareness to properly recover and get back to a higher state of being.
It’s that this can become chronic, where you pseudo-recharge yourself when you hit the bottom, and then it keeps repeating, it keeps you performing just enough to keep this going, but never better.
This then becomes much more difficult to detect and counter. Since you don’t really have or have the awareness to take out the energy to actually identify this, pause, and restore true wellbeing.
Moral of the story, start taking care of yourself, hold yourself accountable to it.
If you’re not, then either you’re already deep inside a hidden burnout loop, or are about to fall down a valley of crippling decay. No pressure - but you really don’t want that.
Somewhere inside you, you know that, you know that you’re falling and that you don’t want this. Friend, take a step ahead and spend just 5 more minutes towards taking decisions that work in your favour.
A cumulative of 5 minutes of intentional thinking can save you 5 hours of draining time every day.
Do that.