I understand exactly where you're coming from and trying to go right now with your career. I had been doing organ transplantation for five years and was so burned out due to the stress and rotating hours I wasn't even aware of it. Not to mention I didn't realize at that time my disease symptoms had started to affect my work.

In that business it doesn't take a very important or big mistake to actually kill someone due to oversight. I walked away with no job prospects in sight vowing to find a less stressful position.

I didn't know how to rework my resume and people were very gun shy believing if I found something better than what I was applying for I would be out the door in a heartbeat. No one could understand why I was trying to cut back and I realized that is really not the type of person most businesses are looking for, but just the opposite.

I took a $15,000 a year cut in pay and damn my work ethic, produced well in excess of my compensation putting myself right back into the stressed out situation. I again made a change to another position making up and exceeding the income cut by another $8,000. Luckily the company was small, family run, very accommodating right through to my total disability.

Short answer, is yes, dumb down the actual resume and go from there. Don't attempt to explain your "why" as people just don't/won't get it and think the worst of you with great suspicion. Good luck though and let us know how this works out for you.