Running on Empty-Recognising Burnout

For many different reasons, people come for counselling when they have become exhausted by life.

They can feel a tiredness that sleep does not alleviate, they feel their capacity for stress and the demands of daily life has lessened, they may be snapping at their loved ones, feeling tense, irritable and consumed with overthinking.

It may have become almost impossible to switch off their mind at the end of the day.

The smallest of things can start to feel overwhelming.

This is often what stress and burnout looks like in reality.

There is often no sudden dramatic event or collapse but a slow wearing down of a person's resources for coping with life.

If you find it difficult to say no to others, you tend to give more than you receive from people, you don't have enough space in your life to rest or to do fun things for yourself, burnout can be the result.

Your system starts to give you warning signs similar to trying to run a car on an empty petrol tank.

The orange light on the dash comes on to get your attention but you may have a tendency to always push through. 

Instead of pushing through, what is needed at this time is a pause.

Often this is when people come for counselling and they can finally take some space to reflect on what is working and not working for them in their lives.

Notice where you could take the pressure off yourself, even slightly.

Where can you lower the expectations of yourself so you can take some breathing space?

The therapy room can be a place to explore how these patterns started possibly in childhood through patterns of people pleasing, for example.

And importantly, begin to look at what is driving the pressure- is it fear, guilt, anxiety or something else?

Burnout and stress are warning signs from your body that the current pace is unsustainable long term.

Refueling the petrol tank needs to be the priority for both your physical and mental wellbeing. 

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