Suppressing grief by burying oneself in work is an unhealthy response that eventually leads to exhaustion and a forced reckoning with one's humanity.

“My response to avoiding the grief of that was to plunge myself into work. >> Yeah. um which is I come to find out not an uncommon response. >> Um and I just kept piling it on and piling it on and piling it on and and it got to a point where literally I just could not get off the couch.”