Articles about Burnout
13 free articles, newest first. Every one is a few minutes long, written in plain language, and open to everyone with no account.
Making a Decision When You Are Exhausted
Half past nine at night and somebody wants an answer. What tiredness does to deciding, how to spot that you are in it, and the one rule about the end of the day worth…
Being the One Who Holds It All Together
You are the reliable one, so everything lands on you, and nobody ever asks how you are. How the role gets built, what it costs, and how to put some of it down.
Checking Out in the Middle of a Workday
You are at your desk, the screen is open, and you are not there. Why long stretches of the workday go missing, where that shades into dissociation, and how to get some…
Telling Your Manager You Are Struggling
You are barely holding the week together and nobody at work knows. What to say, how much to say, and how to ask for something specific rather than sympathy.
When Your Job Quietly Doubled
Someone left, nobody replaced them, and their work landed on you. How to tell what your job actually is now, and how to hand some of it back without a confrontation.
Crying More Easily Than You Used To
An advert, a small kindness, a song in the car. When tears start arriving at nothing in particular, it is usually telling you something about your capacity rather than…
Burnout in a Job You Cannot Leave
Every piece of advice ends with changing jobs, and you cannot. What actually helps when leaving is not an option this year, and what to stop doing.
Working Fewer Hours and the Guilt That Follows
You finally cut back, and now you feel like a fraud at four in the afternoon. Why reducing your hours brings guilt rather than relief, and how that settles.
Taking a Real Day Off
A day with no work in it can still leave you flat. What separates a day off that restores you from one that disappears, and how to build the first kind on purpose.
Coming Back From Burnout
You finally stopped, and rest has not fixed it. Why recovery takes longer than a vacation, what the stages actually look like, and how to return without walking straight…
When Caring for People Is Your Job
Nurses, teachers, social workers, therapists, first responders. When the work is other people's hardest days, the wearing down is different from ordinary burnout.
Rest Is Not the Same as Doing Nothing
You took the weekend off, spent it on the couch, and came back just as tired. Why lying still often fails to restore you, and the kinds of rest that actually do.
Stress or Burnout: How to Tell the Difference
Stress is too much. Burnout is not enough left. They call for different responses, and treating one like the other is why so many people rest and still feel empty.