Feeling Burned Out? - [essential version]
Understanding Chronic Stress and Trauma [OTW post date 30 MAR 24]
Today, we’re going to talk about something called burnout. Have you ever felt really tired and not excited about things for a long time?
That might be burnout. It happens when we have too much stress for too many days without a break.
Did you know that stress can get bigger when bad things happen?
Let’s think about when everyone had to stay home because of a sickness called COVID. It was a hard time, and now some people feel burnout because of it.
The World Health Organization said in 2019 that burnout is a real thing that can happen, especially with work. Even before COVID, Deloitte found out that 2 out of 3 adults had some level of burnout.
In 2022, people started to worry more about feeling happy and healthy in their minds than about COVID. Life moves fast, and COVID made it even harder. Many people tried to be strong, but really we lacked enough ways to feel okay. It became harder to have energy to spend time with friends. It became harder to be social. If you understand this, you’re not alone.
In 2023, the surgeon general, (the doctor appointed by the President to identify widespread health concerns), said that feeling lonely is a big problem. (He labeled it a loneliness epidemic.)
To help with too much stress, sad times we haven’t gotten over, and feeling lonely, we need to make more friends and learn new things to do.
Basic Wellth is going to be a place where you can find ‘easy read versions’ adapted from Toward Wellth essays - on topics including:
Moving our bodies (Exercise)
Eating good food (Diet)
Connecting our minds and bodies (Mind-body connection)
Making friends (Social skills)
Getting enough sleep (Sleep)
Being kind to ourselves (Silencing your inner critic)
Planning our time (Time management)
Writing down our thoughts (Journaling)
Making goals (Goal setting)
At Toward Wellth’s in-person lounge, we want to help everyone learn how to stop stress from getting too big and how to feel better if they’ve been through tough times.
If you want to learn more about these things, come subscribe! You can join us for free, or if you want to help more, you can become a paying member. Or if you have ideas for what we should talk about, email ed@towardwellth.com.
This post was adapted from the original post which can be found here:
