Burnout symptoms
You are probably experiencing a burnout if 5 or more of these sentences resonate with you:
-you often get ill, you catch everything
-your body aches a lot (neck, shoulder, chest or belly for instance but not only)
-you still feel exhausted even after a good night sleep
-you use alcohol or junk food to avoid your feelings
-your body keeps sending you signals that something needs to change, but your mind tells you it is ok, that you should be strong and so you keep going
-you feel tired all the time and you don't seem to be able to rest properly
-you easily feel irritated or angry
-it is getting more and more difficult for you to make decisions
-you have a hard time focusing
-you feel pressured to achieve unrealistic goals
-it seems that everything is urgent all the time
-at the end of your workday you feel drained
-you bring home your work problems and think about them all the time
-you can’t sleep properly and sometimes you wake up thinking about work
-you are losing your sex drive
-you don’t seem to be able to have fun anymore
-you seem to lose interest even for the things you usually enjoy the most
-you care less and less about other people’s issues
-you feel that you don't fit in, and you wonder how everyone else is putting up with everything and why you can't
-you feel that your work and your value are not recognized
-you feel useless and are lacking a sense of purpose
-you are gradually losing your confidence
-you feel lost
-you often feel anxiety
-you identify so strongly with your work and now that you don’t feel enthusiastic about it anymore, you feel that you are losing your identity, or that your life is empty
-you don’t allow yourself to stop because you are afraid that if you do, your whole world might fall apart
-deep down you know that life has to be better than this !
-you often get ill, you catch everything
-your body aches a lot (neck, shoulder, chest or belly for instance but not only)
-you still feel exhausted even after a good night sleep
-you use alcohol or junk food to avoid your feelings
-your body keeps sending you signals that something needs to change, but your mind tells you it is ok, that you should be strong and so you keep going
-you feel tired all the time and you don't seem to be able to rest properly
-you easily feel irritated or angry
-it is getting more and more difficult for you to make decisions
-you have a hard time focusing
-you feel pressured to achieve unrealistic goals
-it seems that everything is urgent all the time
-at the end of your workday you feel drained
-you bring home your work problems and think about them all the time
-you can’t sleep properly and sometimes you wake up thinking about work
-you are losing your sex drive
-you don’t seem to be able to have fun anymore
-you seem to lose interest even for the things you usually enjoy the most
-you care less and less about other people’s issues
-you feel that you don't fit in, and you wonder how everyone else is putting up with everything and why you can't
-you feel that your work and your value are not recognized
-you feel useless and are lacking a sense of purpose
-you are gradually losing your confidence
-you feel lost
-you often feel anxiety
-you identify so strongly with your work and now that you don’t feel enthusiastic about it anymore, you feel that you are losing your identity, or that your life is empty
-you don’t allow yourself to stop because you are afraid that if you do, your whole world might fall apart
-deep down you know that life has to be better than this !