Kollwitz on burn-out →
“Now my work disgusts me so that I cannot look at it. At the same time total failure as a human being…I am stupid and without any thoughts. I see only unpleasant things. The spring days pass and I do not respond. A weariness in my whole body, a churlishness that paralyzes all the others. You don’t notice how bad you get when in such a state until you are beginning to rise out of it. One horrid symptom is this: not only do you not think a single matter through to the end, but you don’t even feel a feeling to the end. As soon as one arises, it is as though you threw a handful of ashes on it and it promptly goes out. Feelings which one touched you closely seem to be behind thick opaque window panes; the weary soul does not even try to feel because feeling is too strenuous. So that there is nothingness in me, neither thoughts nor feelings, no challenge to action, no participation…nothing matters at all to me.”
-Kathe Kollwitz
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