> I’m just feeling incredibly burnout right now, and feeling like I’m not doing enough.
This will check to see if you are potentially having burnout symptoms and will immediately give you a score.
If you scored over 33, you have some burnout symptoms, if you scored over 48, then you should take immediate action.
If you want to verify your symptoms, you can read this article: The Tell Tale Signs of Burnout.
Talk to your supervisor/school counselor. It maybe be possible to (temporarily) reduce your workload.
Find Support. Talk to coworkers/students, friends or family. Let them know what is going on, ask them for support or help. If you have access to an employee assistance program, take advantage of relevant services.
Here are some additional things you should do to improve your overall mental health and decrease the burnout related symptoms (there's a large overlap between depression symptoms/treatment and burnout, so what works for depression, will also work for burnout):
For all of the below advice, use technology to your advantage. Take your phone and set repeating alarm clock reminders, with labels of what to do. Train yourself to either snooze or reschedule the reminders if you can't take action right away, but never to ignore them. The intention is to condition yourself, to build habits, so you will start healing yourself without having to think about it.
Sleep: There is a complex relationship between sleep and depression.
Go outside: If you haven't been outside much lately, you might just need some sunlight. 15 minutes two to three times a week is enough. This will fix serotonin levels as well as vitamin D deficiencies.
Meditate: Depressions can be significantly reduced by meditating. The best types Of Meditations For Depression Relief.
Exercise: The effect of exercise on depressions
Online resources:
Here's the best book I could find specifically dealing with burnout:
These are the highest rated self help books for more general depressions:
There are no subreddits dedicted to burn out, but burnout is very similar to depression and there are several subreddits that are dedicated to that:
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