Are you feeling burnout at work? It’s 8:47 AM on a Tuesday. You haven’t even opened your laptop yet, and already your chest feels tight. The Slack notifications are piling up. Your inbox has 47 unread emails. Your manager wants a “quick sync” at 9.
And somewhere between your second coffee and your third deep sigh, a thought creeps in that you’ve been trying to ignore for weeks: I am completely burned out.
If that sounds familiar, you’re not imagining it. And you’re definitely not alone. Burnout at work is one of the most widespread, underreported, and misunderstood experiences of modern working life. It’s not laziness. It’s not weakness. It’s what happens when stress accumulates faster than it gets released, and when the emotional weight of work has nowhere to go.
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