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2023-01-01
2023-04-27
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What We Keep Getting Wrong About Burnout

Eve Ettinger

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Burnout is typically seen as something related to work, and is viewed as a sort of rock bottom position, what it actually is, is a response to complex and lengthy distress

Interesting points

  • burnout has only been talked about seriously in the last 5 or so years, despite being something that has affected marginalized people extremely for decades
  • on the other hand, many people in positions they see as advantageous struggle to see their own feelings as burnout, often due to guilt