I was burning out and couldn't admit it. A tool I built helped me finally say it out loud.
A while ago I was working somewhere that was slowly destroying me. I started feeling anxiety I couldn't explain. I wasn't myself anymore. But I couldn't make the decision to leave, even though somewhere inside I already had.
The problem wasn't that I didn't know what I wanted. It was that no one was asking me the right questions. And when I tried to think it through alone, I just went in circles.
I'd been building Socrate, an AI that only asks questions and never gives answers. One evening I used it on myself. Not to test it. Because I genuinely needed it.
It asked me one question at a time, based on exactly what I'd just said. No advice. No suggestions. No five-point plan. After about 20 minutes I said something out loud that I hadn't been able to say before. The decision was already there. I just needed someone to keep asking until I reached it myself.
I'm not saying it fixes everything. But if you're stuck and you already know the answer somewhere deep down, sometimes you just need the right questions, not more information.
If anyone here is in that kind of stuck place, try it. It's free, no account needed. usesocrate.com
Happy to talk through whatever you're dealing with in the comments too.