By Now, Burnout Is a Given
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.
Congratulations if you aren’t burned out. Perhaps you learned to play the guitar, wrote a screenplay, or took up French during the pandemic. But if you’re like me and most of my patients, you’re running on fumes.
is usually reserved to describe : exhaustion, feelings of negativism, and reduced professional efficacy. In 2019, the officially recognized burnout in its but clearly stated that the term “should not be applied to describe experiences in other [nonoccupational] areas of life.” Burnout “is classified as a medical condition,” the agency declared, using boldface for emphasis. Similarly, the calls burnout “a special type of work-related stress—a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that
