She wakes up before everyone else. She makes breakfast, packs lunches, answers work emails, manages the household, checks on her parents, listens to her friend's problems, and smiles through all of it. By evening she is a shell but she keeps going, because stopping feels like failing. She is not in crisis. She is not falling apart. She is just… exhausted. In a way that no one around her seems to notice. In a way she cannot quite explain herself.This is silent burnout. And it