I found the perfect ‘condition’ for how I feel - please also do a series / episode on *high functioning depression* I believe this is the issue for our high performing individuals that always deliver and are given more because they get things done

This is all too real. I took a paid leave from my job because the stress and mental exhaustion was too real. I knew burnout was a real thing, just didn’t know how real it was - not until I actually went through it. I decided to take a break to focus on myself & my mental health. Best decision I could’ve made. Thank you for this video! ❤

Burnout victim here. To move forward, I learnt to focus on everything I was taking in each day, basically my ‘daily diet’. Not just the food I ate, it was everything my eyes would see, sounds I would hear, thoughts I would think of, places I went, people I talked to, activities I did. To have a healthy diet, I needed to make sure that I was taking in healthy actions each day. Good luck out there

It is very difficult to get over burn out. For me was almost a year until I could work again. Take care and please do not let stress take you to burn out please.

I work in IT. The constant lack of awareness of the modern need for IT capacity in every organization by management is infuriating. There is constant demands by management while refusing to even trying to understand limits and capacities of the technology. That is the main source of my burn out.

I'm in the blue collar world, and work alone within that much of the time. For a few years I was training the new people. The trouble is, I'm not that much of a sociable people person, it's just not my natural habitat. This gave me the worst burnout I've ever had, by far. This shows how not everyone is not suited to any position. If you're not in a position that suits your personality, move on. Leave it behind without guilt or regrets. I'm now in a unique position where I MacGyver up solutions to whatever weird problems show up. It's the best thing for me, and I (mostly) enjoy my job.

As an Elder Gen X person, the section you touched on about not knowing what I was experiencing really hit the nail on the head. I ended up in therapy after being mentored and micromanaged by a "Mean Girl" boss. My second therapy session, my wonderful therapist started off by asking "ok, how much PTO do you have, because you are absolutely burned out" I was shocked that she could tell. I had a hard time "admitting" that I was not up to all of the challenges of a dysfunctional department and manager! Since then, I have recovered with my therapist's help and learned new skills to identify when I'm getting to burnout and how to practice self care and allow myself space relaxation to prevent it. Thank you for the enlightening talk on this subject, and Toodaloo!

I got burned out at my job. My solution: reduce work hours by 50%. One thing a day - if I work on something, stop sending a dozen other problems, questions, "urgencies" and what-not. Less night screen time, more sleep, more water, shower daily.

Thank you so much for speaking about it! ❤❤❤ Having gone through it myself last year and still not 100% recovered at the moment, one thing which was clear is that employers and HR reps, despite policies in place, have absolutely NO CLUE how to deal or prevent burnout in their employees. They pinpoint and criticise your change in behaviour making it even harder to cope or recover. On the symptoms, there are soooo many and scary ones especially physical, ended up leaving my job of 7 years because of how HR handled or mishandled rather my going on sick leave. Take care out there people! Nothing, no job is worth jeopardizing your health 🥰🤗🤗

Please talk about coworkers who bully/toxic work environments.

At my previous job, I genuinely thought I was experiencing burnout. However, based on your story, it seems like I was actually experiencing severe stress. Instead of apathy, I was exhibiting symptoms such as high blood pressure, constant hand tremors, persistent anxiety about meeting deadlines, and occasional overwhelming emotional breakdowns. The situation reached its peak when I fainted and collapsed at work. Despite these challenges, I never lost my passion for the job or my appreciation for my colleagues. Unfortunately, my superiors failed to recognize my workload and dismissed my concerns, even going so far as to increase my responsibilities.😢

Thank you for bringing this topic up. I can understand how women have delayed response on burnout with different variables in their lives. We deal with societal views, work challenges, home challenges, that this is just another burden on our plate that we have a hard time handling along with so many other things. We sometimes just run out of strength to fight. Then, we use coping mechanisms to just be alive and stay alive in a day. God bless all of us who deal with burnout because it is no joke. Mental health is a long awaited discussion that needs continual focus in daily life to prevent things like burnout and especially depression. God bless and continue this amazing work.

Minute 23 and 24 … it becomes a mess when both things collide and it IS harder to get out of it. I’m currently dealing with this for the past six months and what you said about looking at work with a different perspective to the things I like about it, does ease the “burden”. Listening to channels like yours helps with keeping my motivation on working with myself and see “the job” as a place where I go in -do what I’m getting paid to do in between those hours while feeling purpose of accomplishment- and get the hell out ✌🏻 to keep enjoying my life 💪🏻 For anyone going through something similar: DON’T GIVE UP!

Very true about the growth thing. Not everyone wants to climb the corporate ladder and get more responsibilities or promotions, some of us just want to do the work that we are passionate about without losing the interest and still learning new things here and there

This one hits home. I had one really severe burnout, lost my job over it, and got dangerously close just late last year. What I found slightly, well not necessarily amusing but interesting is that the company that really burned me out was an outfit that really prides itself on creating an environment where „you can do your best work“ and „change the world“, while my current employer, who are all „high pressure environment“ and „don‘t lose a second“ have given me the space and the tools to actually manage my stress and recover from low-level burnout before it got bad. I think that‘s one thing that might be worth adding here, something that I learned from experience. Sometimes, it might not be possible to immediately step far enough away from an overwhelming source of stress to start recovering from burnout. From my perspective, it‘s perfectly okay to just „stabilise“ the situation to prevent it from getting worse. To use a metaphor from the aviation world, sometimes, when you‘ve stalled out your aircraft and plummeted several thousand feet before you could level out, it‘s perfectly okay to sit at that lower altitude, catch your breath, clean up the cockpit and figure out what just happened. There‘s usually no need to add power and immediately start climbing again.

The amount of shame that comes from burnout when, for the average American, the ability to handle insane work stress is a badge of honor. To admit that the stress has pushed us over the edge is shameful. For so long, I wouldn’t allow myself to name what I was experiencing was burnout and “muscling through” wasn’t going to work.

I think when I quit my job to start my business that I was in burnout. Then add in the grief for my husband being killed by malpractice while he was admitted to a local hospital and it made everything so much harder to get through. It has been over 2 and a half years and i am still not back to my old self. The stress and grief on top of the burnout made day to day life so hard and I physically suffered from it all piling up.

What a great subject you are addressing. It is so important. Many people do not know the toll that stress and anxiety and all that entails actually takes on their body, mind and Spirit until it's too late.

I freely admit that, after 30 years dedicating my existence to corporate America (fulfilling 25 different roles within 15 different companies...both as an FTE and Contractor), I am burned out. Ever the overachiever, I am actively working or thinking about work while I'm awake...the computer is always calling me and work is ALWAYS there in my mind. This is the work ethic my parents taught me. When I had COVID and had to go on short-term disability for a month (I'm a severe asthmatic)...my father's first question was not How are you doing? What's your doctor's plan?...but "What about work? Are they going to be OK with that? Will you still have a job?" EVERY decision is "What about work? How will this impact work?" That kind of obsession with basing your whole life around work, around your title/status/income, is the most destructive kind of brainwashing. I'm 200lbs overweight, am never rested, isolate myself (live across the country from my family with no local friends), and am constantly anxious worrying about looming layoffs. Holidays (days off from work) gives me a tiny glimpse of what it's like to live to live...not live to work. If I were in my 20s, I would do things so differently. I suppose many of us could say that.

Thank you for taking the time to make this video on this particular subject! I haven’t been feeling myself for a few months now and everything you stated at the start are all things I’m currently experiencing/feeling.

Such a great topic to start the series off, it’s good to have these open discussions so we don’t feel so alone in our struggles. I would love to see the topic of Imposter syndrome / high functioning anxiety in the workplace.

I've been in burnout for a while now, but I'm stuck in a situation where all my fellow team members have factors in their life which means they have to be giving less right now, plus a rework has moved some of our best people on to other roles. I've been kind of picking up the slack and taking on responsibility that is actually above my level, and it was making me feel really undervalued and taken advantage of. The thing that actually helped in the end was taking the decision to push for promotion. Having that shift from "why is it always me that has to do this" to "this is a responsibility I'm taking on that contributes to my personal goals" makes a surprising amount of difference without actual decreasing the workload. This isn't the only change I've made; mindfulness, exercise, social time with colleagues, pacing my work a little better, reinforcing boundaries, have all helped as well.

I am taking personal time off to try and turn around severe burnout. Working 60-80 hours a week for a decade, in a very high-pressure environment. Working with management that is very unethical. I am a department manager and my department has been cut from 22 to 5, but the workload has done nothing but go up. I have tried to move to a different job in the company, but have been deemed "critical" in my role. Sleep is all over the place, with a daily average of 5 hours which are rarely continuous. Working the hours I have been working, food is not ideal. Mealtimes are ridiculous, with breakfast at 530am and supper often being at 11pm. Stress level is terrible. Immediate manager is not capable of the work, but demands we do it his way until it fails.

Loved this; so many truths. I think you've touched on so many things that many, if not literally all, professionals in corporate life have to deal with. Speaking for myself, if I have one regret in life it is that I gave too much of myself to work and I could have done more to build more friendships and relationships. Burnout for me never meant feeling physically exhausted, but it has left me feeling like I wasted too much of my life pleasing higher ups and corporations that, at the end of the day, didn't fully appreciate me. Yes the money was good and I'm set for life, but on reflection I'd rather be poorer now and had a better work life balance.

I was able to skate by catastrophic burnout a couple of times...first time I was 25. Then in at 36 and I am feeling the start again. I'm hoping things will get better when I get a peer in August... Thing is I have kids and a partner now, so it puts more pressure on me as the primary breadwinner.

Great video and topic! My burnout has always been driven by the lack of importance I feel in my work. I have always struggled to understand how or why what I am doing actually matters. I understand how the company makes a difference, but the exact work I do doesn't really matter because it's basically just creating decks to try to maybe get a decision maker to make a decision on something that really makes no impact on society. Very deflating when you realize how much work is put in by so many people that ultimately leads to nothing. I receive accolades and awards from work, so I know my work is appreciated to some degree, but that doesn't make me feel better about having to sign in everyday. I got to the point in my last role of taking a long weekend up north by myself just to decide if I was going to resign or not, not a great situation. My advice to people, do not keep putting it off if you get in a burnout situation, time will not just magically make things better. Take care of yourself and each other, much love :)

I am currently experiencing a burnout and that video opened my eyes so much... I kept fighting between, its their fault and I'm not good enough, but when I listen to your video, I realized that 90% of what you said talking about the different types of burnout is exactly how I felt in the past months. I'm sad my company didn't see it even though gave a lot of sign, but now that I know these sign, I should be able to recognize them before having to take time off (hopefully). Can't wait to hear more about the "bore-out" I didn't know that was a known phenomenon.

I would love for you to cover the "older colleague that can't adjust to modern requirements" in the difficult colleagues presentation.

Thank you so much. I needed to hear this and understand what is happening to me.

Thank you for bringing this actual experience to the light!.this is REAL!! . I feel heard, and seen! I look forward to more..the boredout spoke to me too.. ...thank you for articulating what this is and doing the research.. Agree too,.it is an inside job, introspection, perspective and the whole picture work, home, relationship, moving for me has impacted more than I realized , just learning a new area, etc...and also realizing yes, you could also be in the most toxic unsupported environment and need to leave...it is self loving not weak or failure. All is lessons.

Thank you for starting this! I had been telling my boss for years that I was too stressed and burned out. It fell on deaf ears. After being put on a PIP, I took a 30 day medical leave. When I went back everything was the same-they even wamted me to take on more work. It was overwhelming so I took a leap and quit. It was the best thing I ever did!! ❤ Can't wait to see more of these!😂

This was great! I would love more of these videos and on the future topics you mentioned.

I've definitely suffered from burnout before. I really appreciate this video (and of course the comment section!)

I am currently experiencing so many of these symptoms, I am paralyzed and so overwhelmed and really struggle to express myself. I have been in my current position at work, but it has taken over every section of my life. My depression is taking over after having it under control for so many years.

This hits hard.I've been working in business for quite a long time, and I must admit that burnout started to bother me about a year ago... I didn't have a moment when I took a week off from everything and simply didn't sit at the laptop. The burnout started slowly, with minor nerves, then I was extremely tired, I had the impression that it would never end, and that year was terrible in this respect. with a job like this I would have to take a week off every month mainly because of the people

Looking forward to more videos like this one!

I feel like im going into burnout, and I wish I had the capability to take time off to recover. I can’t take unpaid time off, and my job doesn’t offer paid leave for burnout. I am so tired 😢.

Oh gosh yes. I ended up leaving my job, after wanting to for so long. I was able to handle day-to-day stress and such, but I was just constantly burnt out; more so during the busy holiday period. Because I had little to no control over my job duties and schedule, as they were predefined by the company and union, I basically felt that leaving would be the best option. I was on a night schedule too, plus many mandated holidays, so that left very little room for life outside of work. Constant low-staffing and regularly having to do the job of multiple people also contributed. It was a hard decision, but I'm glad I made it. The problem is, now I'm kinda afraid to go back into the workforce, as that was quite literally my life for 7 years straight.

Looking forward to part 2. I feel I'm going through undetchallenged burnout. Just initiate my tune off to figure things out.

Thank you for the great video. I am currently in burnout, first time in my 30 plus year career. I started working with a new company in 2022. I started a new line of business for this company. The directors were expected to work 50-60 hours a week, then add the business development for a new line of business. After long days of stress, a demotion, I have hit the wall. It finally started to hit me when I had to interview my replacement. I am still working but my motivation has gone

I got burnt out on a job that was a very toxic environment. They valued not taking breaks, not calling out sick, not offering support to their employees who needed it the most.

Well... I found this very interesting. I've got so many of these "symptoms" and yet don't consider myself burned or bored out. It's close though. But still, what you say comforts me in my assessment if my situation. Plus you gave me some things to "monitor" so ... Thank you.

I have just recently started to feel the stress of burnout due to 12 hour days forming the week and usually a 6 hour day on one day of the weekend. I took on a job that the department had a horrible audit 10 months before I was hired, and now I see why the department had the bad audit. I am dealing with personnel that was not managed - they managed themselves & did not do the work that was required. Now, I come in and ask them to work and it’s met with huge resistance. The belong to a union and they have filed grievances and complaints with lies and it’s hard not y to I take things personally. I’ve tried to lead with what needs to be done, and they just don’t want to work. I’m going to be taking some time off to develop some better strategies to deal with the stress and burnout of this negative situation.

Just made it to the end. I work for a company that expects you to work at least 50 hours per week, call you during PTO, no boundary for work hours, lack of resources, no connection with colleagues and micro management.

well, there you go saying out loud what I have been ignoring for the last year ! thanks Loe 😜

I had it where the stress got so much I just felt a loss of control, in my last role I used to remember where we were up to from memory. In this role everything is done in panic mode and I can’t finish one task before the next bomb hits. My manager is also too nice to push back to people which means they walk all over us, and he takes on everything people throw at us insisting on every email being responded to over keeping our system updated where people can just log in and look (they don’t because it’s not up to date, because we’re busy responding to people chasing us and even doing things that they should be doing). I feel bad, but sometimes I have days where I just can’t look at anything and I do nothing productive. My boss doesn’t notice because it is so normal for most of our work to always be behind. It’s too much for him to notice.

Excellent video!! It would be nice if a sabbatical was granted after milestones (20 years or something) but longevity is not something that is valued much with companies anymore. I’m a full time remote employee and one thing I do is to keep my work stuff so it can lock away and maintain boundaries

I had some really bad school burnout multiple times. The last two semesters, I was dealing with my senior design project. I had multiple weekends where I decided I wasn't going to do anything "productive" because of how stressful the week had been. Like I even told my groupmates that I gave myself the weekend off once because of how much work I did on the project, in my other classes, and maybe in band because I can't remember if this was spring or fall. Resting is productive and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

My office is starting a test for the summer where we work 9 hours M-Th and get the afternoon off on Friday. Some people might be confused by this since most companies moving to a 4 day work week don't actually change their hours; but civil engineering jobs typically bill clients hourly, that is if we go with a fee schedule, which is common on long term projects. It's not a quota job. For it to be a quota job, there would have to be pretty intense micromanaging. Everything would have to be split up into individual tasks, and every single one would have to get done within the week, which is just unrealistic. I am perfectly fine with this arrangement since it just means I can shorten my lunch break to 30 mins and stay till 5:30 or even start at 7:30 (though I probably won't do that)

Definitely commenting before I e watched the whole video but I loved the view on Burnout that was described in the book 6 working geniuses. It basically describes. It attempts to categorize work into 6 types and everyone has preference towards those types. Some are “geniuses” and some are “frustrations” essentially it describes that if you can, you need to maximize doing your geniuses and minimize your frustrations. That’s an over simplification but you should look it up!

All to real, on burnt out. I feel like we all live in a constant state of stress just to get through the day. The accumulative impact of the stress takes a toll .

My burnout in school was pretty much entirely overload burnout. Work is different. It's more coming from monotony. I am just an intern right now, so most of what I do is smaller tasks and checking in with the actual engineers. It's tedious because sometimes they don't have anything yet. One thing going on right now is that I made revisions to some of our drawings, and that has yet to be reviewed after more than a week. I've been assigning myself some tasks that I've found that need to be done in the meantime, but I would like to have the big tasks back

thank u so much for this, i am an engineering student and trying to find jobs in IT. its so scary- the situation of market but i am determined

I'm in the middle of recovering from burned out. I was burning out and i did have a talk with my boss about being burned out and all the work, overtime and how we were always behind (daily meeting about how behind we were and what were we going to do to catch up), but that only lead to micromanagement. At the end i could not handle it. I was put in a PIP and then i 'failed' and got fired. Now I'm just trying to recover and remind myself that just because i failed the PIP does not mean I'm stupid and can't do the work.

Life and work life différenciation is very important and may not always be easy to do.

I'd love to see the studies you're citing linked!

We live in very different worlds.

I've suffered burnout before, but only in the before times before finding out that I'm one of the many female types born before the 2000s who was not properly identified as autistic as a kid. I haven't burn out since gaining that understanding of myself. Burnout is absolutely such an individual thing and fixing/preventing it depends on understanding your individual needs. I need to be busy, I need to not be overstimulated or frequently interrupted while I'm being busy, and I need the people giving me instructions to be ware that I think literally and express things accordingly. Don't tell me something is a hard and fast rule if it has frequent exceptions, tell me it's a best practice and tell me what the exceptions are.

Can you do a video about *how* to write a "how to" guide for tasks and processes? I've personally been writing a how to guide on creating detailed, scaled aerial maps for construction sites. However, while my guides make sense to me, they look like jumbled garbage to others I've tried to share with 😅

I can tell my brother (5 years older than me) is currently burnt out and I think he feels it too, but he's just like "Meh, that's what it's like working on Bay Street".

I have experienced burnout. I’m not growing or utilizing or building skills at the nonprofit I work for. I’m board often times. I was stressed this whole week. I’ll e be at my current job for two years in July. I took a week off.

3:00 I have all these symptoms. If I rate them 0-10, they are all at a 10/10. Thankfully I finally took some time off. But I need more than a week to get my life back in order.

I got bored at work. Reached as high as I could go, nothing new to do. Solved it by retiring.

I'm American, and I assume you are as well (sorry if I'm wrong about that). I'm curious how burnout affects people in countries with more vacation/sick leave, and where quitting your job doesn't mean losing healthcare.

Please talk about toxic work environment please!!!!!🙏

How about burnout from not being able to hit KPIs, and no matter what you do, you just can't hit that one goal? And the supervisor that no matter what, tries to motivate by comparing to other team members, threatening termination, and/or telling you to just 'change your mindset' (sales)? Like boss burnout?

burnout can also easily be applied to activism or volunteering in general, so I don't understand why WHO limits its definition to work only

I have burnout I laugh about it but my field is where I can make money and I am good at it. But I would rather do anything else after 20+ years.

I burned out back in July 2018 and had 3 strokes in a week it was horrible

Teachers fight this everyday 😨😨😨

Question. Where can someone genuinely find Official public rights for workers? Like websites from Western governments? Something. Please, help.

No joke, if everyone could get 5-7 days off a month paid, life would be so much better

Are you aware your content is being stolen, visually animated then presented as original? They use your vocals with simple animation.

Wow, so sad that such a beautiful place can have so much negativity. It seems like overall, you had a very nice trip. Thanks for sharing.

Someone is stealing your content. They use your voice and Ideas with stickn I people.

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