Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands.
In this day and age, I’m sure every single person over the age of 18 has felt burnt out at least once. And I can bet a large amount of school aged kids even have felt burnt out ( I know my 8-10 year old students feel burnt out right now because I see it daily.)
Burn out is so common yet most people don’t know what it is, or just live with the acceptance that it’s never going away. When I started this blog I had every intention of posting at LEAST once every week and a half to two weeks. And it’s been a minute since I’ve been able to lay my thoughts out on paper (or on the computer) or even really vocally.
I’m not overwhelmingly stressed by anything in particular. I actually feel like certain things that have been causes for stress are falling into place. I’m just burnt out.
I’ve had phases of burn out when it comes to my diabetes quite often. (A 24/7 365 job will be tiring and overwhelming some days.)
I’ve felt burn out with the job I love.
I’ve had burn out when it comes to committing to being healthier and showing up for workouts.
I’ve had burnout in friendships where it’s too hard to start or continue conversations.
It’s not very often that the burnout feeling hits me in multiple areas at once. Usually I can become lax in one area and allow the energy I’m lacking to come back where I can focus on all aspects of my life. But currently, I’m struggling to find energy for a lot of things and I know it’s burnout.
I made it to spring break and I thought some time away from work would help but I feel even more burnt out now. Like, I need to be enjoying my free time because I don’t get it often but I also need to relax and the stress of that causes me to not get anything done but be worse off because I’m not allowing myself time to enjoy the time I’m not doing anything. It’s exhausting with either choice.
There’s a rant I could get tied up in for too long…
I’m not complaining, because I have a lot of exciting things coming up in my life, and I’m happy about so much.
I just believe that the current state of the world and the idea social media has created where we always have to be doing something has harmed everyone. We are taught to always be our best, give our best, and #nodaysoff.
Then burnout crashes into us and we are forced to make a choice. Do we give up, or just take a rest?
I know I’ll be better when I come over this hill. If you’re burnt out right now, know you aren’t alone. Here’s to more rest days so I can enjoy life more fully.
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