10 signs you may be heading for burnout!!

Here I am back again to talk about burnout.

I thought that looking at some of the signs that you are reaching burnout would be the best place to start.

We can get so carried away just doing and living our lives that we may experience some of these signs but not put them together to realise we are burning out, its fair to say that we might not want to realise it, I know that was the case for me, I felt if I just kept pushing then next month I would be able to rest, well I sure got to rest but that rest lasted 6 months and it wasn’t by choice.

1.Ongoing physical and mental fatigue is one of the more familiar signs of burnout most people associate exhaustion with burnout so I thought I would get this out of the way. I absolutely had this but I ‘powered’ through. Are you powering through? using energy drinks and sugary snacks to boost your energy?

2. Are you experiencing experience recurring illnesses for example and getting coughs and colds more often. The fatigue and stress affect our immune system which I will go into more info about in another post. For me this was another tick, I actually had laryngitis when I finally crashed.

3. Do you struggle to get to sleep, and or wake up int the night? even if you are able to get straight back to sleep this can still be a sign of burnout.

4. Are you feeling low or easily irritated? WithoutWithout intervention, burnout often leads to depression. Mild feelings of sadness or discontent grow into deeper feelings of melancholy and lethargy. It can also lead to feelings of worthlessness, frustration and even suicidal feelings. This is one of the symptoms that I had but didn’t associate with burnout, I related it to my self-esteem and feeling shame because I wasn’t achieving the results I was expecting.

5. Do you sometimes feel a sense of impending doom? This is also often accompanied by pessimism, grows as personal dissatisfaction and a sense of powerlessness. You may start to see the world through a negative lens. For me I would swing wildly from everything is going to be fantastic to think the universe was against me.

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