Two years

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Two years ago I had a nervous breakdown resulting from stress and exhaustion. I'm both thrilled with the progress I've made in my recovery and frustrated with my inability to reclaim my pre-breakdown state of mind/physical health.

I continue to tell myself that all I have lost will be regained. Sometimes it's hard to believe it.

You’re making progress. That’s the important thing. If you lament about the past, you will cease to make progress.

I don't know if it was a burnout or breakdown as I have had several and each one I had was worse then the one before, and happened because I took on work each time when I thought I had recovered from the one before. (Even though it came down to working extremely low hours with days off inbetween. (At one time I was breaking even with thw cost of teavelling back and fore to work as the hours that I could manage were so few in a shift!

I would like to know if my experiences have been burnout or breakdown as I know it rwally takes a few years to recover each time I had one so it was a few years without an income so I had to go back early. I am now on benefirs because I had help after the last one but I still do not know what it is.

Recovery takes a long time. You sound like you are progressing and that is what counts. I believe that recovery and healing from a catastrophe does change you. You will not only back to normal, but also wiser.