Why does it seem like you spend most of your time in bed, lying down and not doing much lately? Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of behavior as mere laziness and nothing more? There’s actually a lot of overlap between laziness and burnout that can make it difficult to differentiate between the two. Burnout is a negative state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion, caused by excessive stress and an inability to cope with it.
As of 2010, a survey reported that approximately 75% of adults in the United States have experienced symptoms of burnout, with over 40% of cases being more severe. Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to educate and better understand the nature of burnout. With that said, here are six telltale signs that what you’re experiencing right now isn’t actually laziness, but burnout.
You feel disconnected from everything.
Are you going through the motions of every day as if on autopilot? Is there a persistent feeling of being detached from your own self? If you’re suffering from burnout, one of the things you might be experiencing, but don’t quite realize or understand, is depersonalization. People experiencing depersonalization, most commonly those struggling with trauma, report feeling a strange sort of emotional numbness or emptiness as if they were watching life from outside of themselves. They don’t feel like themselves anymore. They don’t feel engaged by anything and constantly struggle with an overwhelming sense of helplessness and an inability to take back control of their lives.
You used to be motivated.
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