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Burnout is not simply exhaustion. It is the collapse of a person who has overextended across a sustained period, often without adequate support from the other areas of life. Removing someone from the environment that caused it does not stop the process.
Passion, in the clinical context used by Philippe Jacquet, refers to genuine engagement with life — a sense of meaning, purpose, or calling that gives the person something to move toward rather than only something to run from.
Addiction does not arrive in a full life. It arrives in a life that is missing something. The substance fills that vacancy — it provides intensity, anticipation, relief — a counterfeit version of being fully alive.
“You will suffer better” is the most honest summary of what depth psychotherapy offers. Not the elimination of suffering — that is not achievable. What changes is the quality of the suffering: the meaning found within it, the capacity to bear it without being destroyed, and the ability to feel pain clearly rather than escaping it at cost.