Were you pushed too hard growing up since you made slightly above average grades? Everyone around me told me I was going to be a genius and do great things and kept pushing me into honors programs. They don't realize I'm just a midwit who's now burnt out from pretending to be someone I'm not.
The only thing I want to do is mindless work for 15/hour and go home and sleep at this point, or be a NEET. I used to be so enthused about science and research and now I dont even want to be in fucking STEM anymore.
Has anyone regained a sense of purpose in their field? What went wrong? How do you keep going? Maybe I'm just depressed.