Recognize your burnout

Symptoms
You can think for yourself that (maybe) you've gotten burnout if you can perceive in your own functioning a.o. the following:

Exceeded self-criticism:
You think about yourself that you can't do no good anymore, everything goes wrong, whatever you do tomorrow will also be doubtful.

Inactivity:
You do far less then before, wherever before you would step forward you now prefer to stay in the background.

Withdrawal:
You always loved to move around the people and you had friends. These days you hardly see any people anymore and you don't look for your friends anymore.

Moodswings:
Everything looks bleak and you have no more fun. Sometimes, all of a sudden you feel sad.

Undecided:
You don't know where to go, in your idea you accomplish nothing anymore.

Not exactly a nice list.
If you overlook this, you would say there is a depression hanging on. And yes, rightly so, because being depressed and being burnout are often confused, just because the symptoms are so similar. There is a major difference though. Depression is an involuntarily condition, something which can just happen to anybody, often having to do with small biochemical flaws. Being burnout though comes direct from the life you led so far, you did it to yourself (not by purpose, of course). Knowing this gives an advantage: you can influence this back, you can arm yourself against it psychologically. The cognitive therapy, mentioned before, offers all the necessary tools.

Resuming:
Getting burnout: okay, this can happen to the best of man.. But: throwing your towel in the ring: no option, don't do it, the problem can surely be solved. Consult your medic, look for a proper therapist and start getting things back on the right track again.