Some years ago I heard about a veterinarian who drove to his hospital parking lot one morning and couldn't bring himself to get out of his car and go inside his own practice. His colleague found him in his car crying. As someone who has dealt with brownout and depressive episodes that drove me from practice, affected my personal life and interfered with a life that most people envy, I can tell you such an extreme emotional response didn't just happen. It built up and evolved over years until the emotional dam broke.
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