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Oh look, it me
Fucking life right now
Woah, 100%. I win!
Ok how do I fix it?
I’m medicated but still very prone to burnout, and currently burned to a crisp.
I saw this post and realized I’m going through this.
So this response is for me. You can take and modify it to fit your needs. I’m rooting for you.
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Outline what you do at work and see what can be offloaded, dropped, given to someone else.
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Make some if-thens. (Google up implementation Intentions)
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Return to personal hobbies. Oddly enough, I actually have to carve time out.
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Find ways to spend more time outside of your work environment. Bonus if you can take your work with you. Going on a walk while catching up on a work recording, or going to the park and cleaning out your emails, or have a meeting in a coffee shop.
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This one is the biggest for me: I find myself frequently scrolling through news/social media. This habit of seeking instant distraction can be more mentally draining than recharging. Replacing this behavior with a healthier hobby would be more beneficial for my overall well-being.
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Only answer is: Take it easier. Burnout is no joke. If you’re already burnt out, you might need months or more to relax enough to get some passion back.
Hm. I have one vacation day left after being sick. Won’t get more until next week. Work 10 hour days 4 days a week and the too exhausted to relax most of the remaining 3.
What if… Hear me out… What if I were to be, idk, run over by a bus and hospitalized for a month? /s
Take it easier.
How?
you might need months or more to relax enough to get some passion back
You paying my bills?
It starts with working within the contract. If it says you have with hours until 17h, stop at 17h. Whatever happens at work after that is not your problem. Most people don’t have shares so it doesn’t matter personally. Overtime earns some cash but in my case has a lot of tax, and costs you more in mental health in the long term.
But that’s me.
He isn’t dismissing how difficult your situation is. He is just saying the only solution to burnout is to stop doing the thing that is burning you out, i.e. take it easier. Whether or not that is within your power is a different story.
I understand the difficulty, but let’s put it this way. If you truly are moving towards burnout, either you’ll figure out a way to take it easier or eventually your own brain will make you.
Yeah, I had to learn the hard way that I needed to enforce boundaries like a strict bedtime and one day a week where I do absolutely nothing productive (even socialize) or my body/brain would enforce those boundaries at a time of their choosing instead of mine. I’d rather do nothing on Sundays with little consequence than have a mental breakdown on a Tuesday that lasts days and suffer bigger consequences.
So what if we’ve been feeling like this for as long as we can remember? How long can you burn without going out?
For me it was 52 years. Or 14 if you count the day my first child was born, which in turn put enough stressors on me to burn out and not to read or answer any mail (bills & taxes) and go bankrupt in 2018.
I am on the way out, defend free time like nothing else, but still can feel stress reactions in my body.
How do I cure burnout because I’ve been feeling this way for the past 3/4 months?
For myself:
Regimented change in habits to include more sleep, time outside, and hobbies.Add more time to deadlines to allow for the changes.
Sounds like somebody needs to just unplug for a while, man. Go to Burning Man, get enlightened. Take a sabbatical, bro. You’ll be upgrading your network/networth. Let me tell you about microdosing ligma, bro…
BINGO!
Fuck.
You just described my last 2 jobs before I quit and became much happier even tho I was unemployed.
Work is stupid. We should be working 20 hours weeks and fucking around the rest of the time. Everyone would be so much happier.
Or maybe everyone with ADHD (and, this, 80 gagillion hobbies)
Reduce my hours to ~30 and I’d get the same amount of work done in that time.
Having both an extremely enjoyable and fulfilling job, as well as having a long sabbatical that same year, fucking around can honestly get boring real fast.
All those ADHD traits pile up real fast and I honestly felt worse day-to-day than I did working absurd hours at a job I really like. There’s a balance, but honestly having fulfilling structured work to fill at least part of the day is super important. I’ve personally noticed that I tend to go a bit batty even if work is slow and I’ve not got much to do, so having that bit of structure really helps.
Fair point. I am actually concerned about just bouncing around aimlessly when I retire. I know that will not go well.
What you’re talking about sounds like what I had in mind. Structure for at least part of the day. Every day.
I also need to have specific goals laid out. I’m starting to make a master list of post retirement goals. I imagine having one big long term project and a few short term ones would work as long as I keep to a rough timeline on each.
Back when I had a better work schedule I usually had one or two small projects or else one big project going at any time and was able to stick to them.
I’m also thinking that taking a class or doing a part time job (or volunteering) would be a good idea. And another option is switch to part time at my current job. I know a few who have.
Nah, it’s fine. I’m only experiencing all of those signs.
Uh oh 👀
Yeah that was me for the last 3 months, so I cut my hours down and got out of the department that was destroying me and now I get to have fun in the department I enjoy. Haven’t had a stressful work day since.
I was a 911 dispatcher for close to 6 years. Towards the end I was deep into all of these things, and more. I couldn’t tell because it had all been normal to me for years by that point. It’s insane how normal this can all seem from the inside. My advice to anyone reading this is that you rarely can be a good judge of your own burnout while experiencing it. Listen to the people you trust when they bring these things up. It’s not judgement, it’s not an attack on you. It’s genuinely in your best interest to not let it get too far. I have been out for almost 4 years now and the last 2 months are the first time in almost a decade I remember what actual happiness is like and how it feels to enjoy doing something.
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