Burnout is the result of chronic stress, and it can have a severe impact on your health and wellbeing. Chronic stress causes persistently high levels of cortisol, which interfere with normal body functions, such as sleep, digestion and the immune system. Luckily there are steps that you can take to prevent or overcome burnout. This article details a number of ideas you can use to help prevent burnout from happening.
‘Burnout’ is a thing, doctors say. Here are the symptoms
“Burnout” isn’t a term you’ll find in the manual that psychiatrists in North America use for a standard classification of mental disorders. Technically, there is no such diagnosis. Doctors, however, are increasingly using the term to refer to a set of patients who suffer from severe chronic stress, according to Dr. Shimi Kang, a Vancouver-based psychiatrist and frequent speaker on the subject of workplace and mental health.
