You canceled on your friends because they texted "you up?" at 9 p.m. You said the sushi place was perfect (you do not like sushi). You have real questions about where this is going, and you have decided to keep them to yourself until some later date that keeps moving.

You are exhausted. You have stopped looking forward to things. You cannot remember the last time you felt like yourself. So which is it: burnout, or depression?

Nobody wakes up burnt out. There is no single morning where a switch flips. Burnout tends to build slowly, mostly out of sight, until one day you notice you are eating lunch at your desk while answering emails and you cannot remember the last time you didn't.

Imposter syndrome is the persistent belief that your success is not really yours - that you got here through luck, timing, charm, or working harder than anyone realises, and that eventually the people around you will notice.

The Sunday scaries are the wave of anxiety, dread, or low mood that shows up in the hours before the work week starts - usually Sunday afternoon or evening.