The Wellbeing Brief
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What burnout actually feels like
Burnout has become a word that gets used loosely — for tiredness, for stress, for the feeling of needing a holiday. And while those things are real, burnout in its clinical sense is something more specific. And more serious.
Understanding what burnout actually is matters, because the thing most people reach for — rest, a holiday, a break — is often not the thing that will help. That gap between intervention and recovery can leave people confused, sometimes convinced something is more permanently wrong with them than it is.