Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

Have you ever felt so burnt out that you didn't recognize yourself?

31 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari describes a burnout so severe it made him unrecognizable to himself. Panic attacks woke him from sleep, he felt suicidal thoughts creeping in, and he became emotionally detached, irritable, and hypersensitive to everything around him.

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When my journey started, it started with crazy increases in anxiety, panic out of nowhere, startling awake from kind of a dead sleep, which then came with panic attacks and brought me to my knees. And I talk about this, I am not ashamed, but I became suicidal in my thoughts. Not all the time, not even a quarter of the time, But there were days when I would sit on my couch and I would look at my life. I didn't feel like myself emotionally. I was irritable and uncomfortable in my work body, and things that would never have bothered me would bother me, and I thought I was losing my mind.