I don't think she was thinking at all clearly. From my (admittedly secondhand) experience, people with PTSD/burnout are capable of doing some pretty boneheaded things because their minds just aren't in the right place for rational thought or actions+consequences. They just want to get the hell away.
It's not that I can't buy her need to get away (though it's not the turn I would have wished for), or that the stress from this weeks case somehow was the last straw or something. It's just that I see Sarah as a fairly practical person, and she's coped with the trauma for some time already and still managed the day to day stuff, and even though she has emotional trouble with her job now, there's a long history of her caring quite a bit about her professional life and career, so I have a hard time to accept that suddenly she wouldn't at least arrange some minimal stuff taking care of that.
It makes me wonder what the Behind The Scenes situation was. The had a perfect opportunity to kill her off in the Miniature Killer plot...that would have been a big angsty ratings grabbing extravaganza. And this...felt like a regular episode with a few scenes tacked on to show her leaving.
I don't follow cast news at all, so I don't know anything about that. I assume they want to bring her back after a bit. In any case CSI's tendency to heap trauma on all the main characters in some kind of circle assignment for melodrama has annoyed me for some time now. I don't really think it's necessary for crime shows to make all their cop characters victims too.
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