Burnout
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- monNom1
Burnout, as I understand it, is a deficit of emotional energy following a period of high-stress and emotionally demanding situations. Basically your are so tapped out emotionally that everything becomes dull, and you're excitement level is pretty much non-existent. Maybe you've used up all the chemicals in your brain, or more likely, your neural receptors related to the stress response are all burnt out and not as sensitive as they once were.You need time away to recover them to their previous state.
So burnout is emotional, and you can get it following a big stressful life-changing event, or if you work in a creative career (which is hugely related to emotional sensitivity), and you overextend yourself beyond your energies, without an adequate rest afterwards.
A surefire way to achieve burnout is to work long hours in a creative field without a good rest after big pushes. Unfortunately, most places you get to return to a normal 9-5 after a big push, which gradually erodes your energy. Couple that with the fact that many creatives have side-projects that they work on outside of work hours, and you end up without much time to recuperate the old neural connectors.
To avoid burnout, you need to manage your workload yourself, because 9 times out of 10, your boss is not going to accept anything less than whatever he can get away with. If you stand firm on work hours and workload, there's a small chance of getting let go, but the alternative is that if you don't, and you accept a grueling death-march schedule, you will become a burnt-out husk of a designer who is no longer valuable to any organization.
- Krassy0
Visit QBN more often
- feel1
well, now that I know what it is...
I guess keeping friends close, meeting new people, going out, drugs and sports. and also art/movies/yt videos/etc, that would refill my creativity...
I guess I haven't been on this burnout state because I do all this stuff all the time heheh
- kona0
- jagara1
Stop buying shit you don't need. And the stop working so much.
- scoops0
Real talk: exercise, therapy, a judicious use of prescription drugs, easing up on myself when i don't work 50 or 60 hour weeks, making time to see my wife and kid, making time to have a small social but solid life. nothing is worth messing your body and brain up over. you'll be a terrible employee, friend, significant other or parent.
- MrT0
Road rage helps.
- omg0
Ways to avoid burnout.
1. Work when you want to work.
2. If you need to take an executive nap, do it. a good hour or two if necessary mid-day will put you back in place.
3. watch tv or movie during lunch or dinner.
4. go to the gym for an hour (try to make this routine)
5. If you're super stressed, get a massage.
6. Go grocery shopping. Nothing like picking out the meat and veggies to get your mind off work. Bring back some beer.
7. Drink some beer, share some with co-workers
8. Go fishing for half a day, go back to work afterwards.
9. Do some naked yoga and meditate.
10. Play with cat.
- maquito0
Beer
- omg0
- Krassy0
Play chess. The game does not allow you to think about anything else, so it helps to switch off completely.
- instrmntl0
One person at my work seems to address this problem with cocaine.
- jasontroj0
So I took advice from here, and my own knowing better.
I took a day off on Monday.
And then I got so many phone calls that I wound up working a solid 8, just in the evening.Can't even get a vacation day.
So the time has come...
- clearThoughts0
Tried drugs and alcohol extensively to cure the burnout, but didn't work for me.
See John Galliano for example.
Not trying to cope with it with excessive, yoga or meditation and trying to find distracting things to do.
In my opinion this is a decease to our times.
You could have a meltdown working on mining years ago, but that was physical.We are more like our brains are about to explode!
- studderine0
Been there, done that.