Burnout Is Hurting You More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Stop It.
It’s Friday night. Instead of going out to dinner, hanging with friends, or finally getting started on that book you’ve been meaning to read, you’re sitting on your couch. Watching Criminal Minds on repeat. You’re not really enjoying this, but it’s the easiest option because you’ve had a stressful week at work, and even the thought of planning a way to blow off steam seems overwhelming.
Sound familiar?
You’re not alone. So many of us feel trapped in unfulfilling careers, unable to see a way out.
Burnout is a real thing and yes, it affects us
Burnout is more than just feeling bummed or not wanting to go to work on Monday. According to the Mayo Clinic, work-related burnout is “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.” In other words, you’re feeling so stressed out, disillusioned, or just plain depressed that you feel hopeless and completely unlike yourself.
And, unluckily for us, millennials as a generation have the highest rates of burnout, with 84% of us dealing with burnout at our jobs, according to the Deloitte Workplace Burnout Study. I don’t know about you, but that seems way too high to me — that’s more than eight out of every 10 of us!
