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Yes, I do. I've been there myself. I lost a good 2 years of income to burnout. Had to get some proper help and meds.
My Talbot story is there for everyone to read about.
My sentiment at the time was this: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14918833/
And I really hoped that Matt'd come through and be better. I really did.
But what has me commenting the way I am now is that I had a few people DM me in the past year or so and go "hey, I am getting ghosted right now, what happened to your frame in the end?". One of then must've even been to the workshop in person and it was all smiles and chat and then .... nada ...
So in regards to your original question. I have my doubts that this can happen over and over again and you don't change the way you do things, or that you can be so selective in your state of debilitation that you manage to take deposits etc just fine for a few more years plus crank out some awesome showcases for Handmade or whanot, or that two business owners are in this state at exactly the same time, without telling waiting customers "Hey, my business partner isn't on deck atm, we'll be a while, this and that is happening to your order". That's the bit that grates.