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Message: <blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3488407" data-attributes="member: 40894">Unexpressed anger, sadness, or other forms of upset cause depression. Depression can make you feel burned out, almost especially about things that have a large hold on your time and energy, like your job, which you probably need, or your loved ones, whom you... love, or even a hobby that has provided hours--possibly years--of enjoyment. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I think that the reason we are seeing a larger number of these threads is in reaction to WotC's ill-handling of the recent news about Dungeon and Dragon magazines, coupled with the sadness of the loss, and redoubled by our sense of powerlessness. All of that compounded emotion is difficult to slog through, even if you have all of the stuff there you need to have to deal with it. None of the people who were so deeply offended by all of it have been given much closure, if any.The "burnout" threads are coming because they can't beat up the people they want to beat up, so they're doing--perhaps unconsciously--the next-best thing. They're saying, "I don't want to know you, anymore." :\ "If an eye offend thee, pluck it out."</blockquote>