System or individual: who is responsible for burnout
Burnout is not a personal weakness but a mismatch between a person and their work. What the WHO and the six-areas model say, and what you can do versus what your employer…
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When the body stops and cannot go on. Posts on the signs of burnout, how it differs from tiredness, and what has to change so it does not happen again.
When a leader burns out: who helps the person at the top
Leaders burn out in the same ways as everyone else, but each sign hides behind a quality others praise. Why the person at the top finds it hardest to ask for help…
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Burnout and shame: why it is so hard to say out loud
There is a lot of talk about exhaustion in burnout and little about shame. Why we feel it, how it differs from guilt, and how to tell your manager, partner and family.
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Cynicism as a sign: when you no longer care and it isn't your character
When you stop caring about your work, you can end up frightened of yourself. Cynicism is one of the three dimensions of burnout — a protection that often hides disappointment, anger and…
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Burnout and relationships: what happens to a couple when one partner gives out
Burnout never affects just one person. How stress comes home, why a partner becomes a carer, where resentment comes from and how to be with a burned-out partner without burning out yourself.
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Why it is the most responsible and reliable people who burn out
It is not the people who don't care who burn out, but the ones everyone relies on. What dedication, perfectionism, the inability to say no and the family hero role have in…
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Burnout is not laziness: signs your nervous system is asking for a break
Tiredness a weekend can't fix, cynicism, a sense of not being good enough? Check the signs and stages of burnout, and why rest alone is not enough.
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Parental burnout: always available and never enough
Parental burnout is not ordinary tiredness, nor the same as depression. What research across 42 countries shows, and why a shared load is one of the strongest protections.
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Burnout in athletes: when the love of sport fades
Exhaustion, the sense that you are not improving, and a sport you no longer care about. What athlete burnout is, how it differs from overtraining and what perfectionism has to do with…
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Returning to work after burnout: how to stop it happening again
"I feel better" does not yet mean "I'm ready". How to return gradually after burnout, what to tell your employer and what has to change in your workplace, not only in you.
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