Consider burnout. In traditional agriculture, a field left fallow was not a failed field. It was a field being trusted. Farmers understood that soil which gives without receiving will eventually give nothing. Rest was not idleness. The fallow period was when the invisible work happened: the microbes, the minerals, the slow restoration of what had been taken. You could not rush it without destroying the very capacity you were trying to restore. We speak of burnout as collapse. But perhaps it is closer to fallow. The body refusing to continue depleting what has already been spent. Not a breakdown, but a boundary. Not failure, but a refusal to continue to engage in something that will not nourish us. The organism doing what organisms do when they have given beyond their replenishment.