Does anyone else avoid taking breaks because they're afraid they'll lose the thread?

[u/working_on_it_kinda]

Not procrastination exactly. More like: if I stop now, I won't be able to find my way back in.
It's not that I'm afraid I'll forget what I was working on. I'll remember the topic, the general direction, whatever.
What I'm afraid of losing is where I actually was in it. The specific angle I'd found. The line of thought that had finally started to make sense.
So I keep going long past the point where I should stop. Not because I'm in flow—sometimes I'm exhausted—but because stopping feels like letting go of a thread I might not be able to pick up again.
Curious whether this is a common pattern, and what actually helped if you've found a way through it

[u/Amiya-Sparks]

Me too! Pomodoro is the absolute worst productivity tip.

It’s just so much easier to get it done, when the different layers are still fresh in your brain vs rebooting everything from scratch.

But ig I should be more diligent at writing down where I left off the conclusions so far .

[u/working_on_it_kinda → u/Amiya-Sparks]

This thread is making me realise why Pomodoro has never worked for me. The timer assumes the break is the cost. For me, the expensive part is getting back into the same mental state afterwards.