Im currently experiencing severe anxiety and depression at work. Its consumed me to the point where I feel I'm not competent to work(especially since my job involves patients ).I have started having both physical and mental symptoms -memory lapses, confusion, headaches, chest pains. I wake up crying and will often cry at work in the toilet from feeling not good enough and overwhelmed. Im considering taking quitting and taking several months off. Im glad that there are people willing to speak out about their experiences even though there is still a stigma attached to this. Seeing others recover gives those suffering hope.
@@ljnv thank you for checking in .. I dwelled in it for a year more ..and it was unbearable ..finally made the decision to change things ...my main problem I realised was that my job wasn't fulfilling at all among other things...I'm finally quitting and going back to my first field of work which was hard but very fulfilling...I feel happier and content after making the decision to quit !
i fully know what you mean about the "stigma" of this i find little empathy and lots of rejection when i tell my story. people are so unsympathetic to something they've never been through.
I am in the midst of a work burnout at the moment and it’s really difficult to understand as it came completely out of the blue. Thank you for this video
Hi. Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this challenging period. I completely understand when you say it came out of the blue! I wish you the very best on your road to recovery. Stay intouch and know there are many of us out here to help support each other. Best Gregg
ive had 10 years of hell. i can't find now any reason to motivate myself. luckily my parents died and i received an inheritance. my burnout has led to adrenal fatigue, light sensitivity, body aches. loss of friendships, my ptsd has been exhacerbated by multiple rejections as i try and find support.
Im so sorry to hear that your experience has been going on for so many years. I can’t imagine what that must be like. I sincerely hope you do find the support you need and are able to have a healthy recovery. Thanks for sharing. I hope you also find support from my videos and the others here commenting. 🤗🙏
I've had similar..... Leading to anxiety, deep suicidal depression, reliance of drugs (still do), I wasn't working and life became small and dark. I took the courage to volunteer at an animal shelter, and I have a sense of purpose. My hell lasted about 6 years, with suicide often my only solution. I understand and keep up the videos❤️
Hi Lynette, thanks for watch and sharing your experience. Sorry that it was so bad to the point of suicide. I truly feel for you having to have gone to such dark places. Volunteering is amazing! Good for you. Thanks for your support. hugs 🤗
Hi Grace. I know a lot of people here have said that they really found their beliefs, religion and community a great support to them. I’m glad you have that to turn to during this difficult period in life. I wish you the best. Thanks for watching and commenting . Much appreciated 🙏
I worked as a middle manager in one facility for approx 5 yrs, coordinating 5 full-time, several permanent part-time and casual staff. I had difficulty in the role on many fronts. I did the best I could and tried to provide support with best practice in mind, I had burnt myself out, unfortunately the worst was to come. My department and another department ended up merging in a new facility where my staff base grew to over 25 staff with a mixture of full-time, perm-part and casual. I continued to push myself for another 2 yrs. I worked beyond my resources, mentally, physically, emotionally and had a severe burn out with extreme anxiety, fatigue, anger, resentment, suicidal thoughts and stress. I was completely worn out. I've since transferred out of the facility to another facility in a reduced role. It's been 2 yrs since I transferred and even though I've second guessed my decision to leave my role, it was the best decision I've made. I'm slowly finding myself, I've got a way to go still.
Hi. Thanks for watching and moreso, thanks for sharing your experience. Firstly, sorry to hear you have been through this experience. I think I’m our careers we often take on more than we can in the way of progression. Whether it’s something we want or we don’t want. In your case, sounds like the merge was company driven rather than your desire for the team to grow. Im glad you were able to transfer out of that situation. I do hope you have a healthy recovery. It’s 3 years on for me and to be honest, my life is very different. And I still have my ups and downs. But I am much more aware of my boundaries and limitations. And knowing this helps a lot.
I left my first corporate job recently, I worked there for 3 years. I have no more savings. No money to live off and pay the bills or we are homeless. Unfortunately I'm stuck looking desperately for another job. Nobody wants me, and the only jobs available are 12-14hr jobs in warehouse or call center, never touching those jobs. I just can't take it or I just wouldn't want to live anymore. I'm just stressed and anxious 24/7. I have a chronic illness which makes everything harder. Nobody cares. I've tried everything possible to make money, even stupid things. I run multiple online businesses, have multiple TH-cam Channels, I spent all my savings on trying to become a voice actor, which was my passion and the most i've made in a year is $30. I worked so freaking hard, even during my full time job all I did was grind outside of my job. I can't do this anymore, how do people live like this. My whole family thinks i'm a disgrace as I left a good paying job, but it was super toxic and stressful. Constant deadlines, daily meetings and managers making you stay unpaid overtime. I'm only 23. I can't do this for another 40+ years. I wish I knew what to do... I'm burned out too, all I do is voice acting for free and I'm too busy nowadays to even take on small paid jobs. Just sick of this bullshit society.
Hi, Im sorry for the late reply. Ive been off the channel for sometime. I'm sorry to hear the difficult times you are going through. Living in the world we do, the pressure put on us to earn money to just survive is incredible hard. And often we are presented with difficult choices to make over doing the things that we really want to. Leaving a job because it is toxic and stressful isn't disgraceful. You must protect yourself. But in doing so, it does also mean you have to sometimes make short term compromises to be able to achieve your goals win the long term. It took my 35 years of working before I realised I could make my passion for art my career. I did everything from washing dishes to cleaning buildings, to get myself into a better position. Maybe try and not look at the jobs at the call centres or warehouses as not achieving your goals. See them as a short term steps to help your immediate situation, and take you to the next step you want to go. You have it in you to make the right choices for you. this maybe hard to hear now when everything is falling apart. But the truth its, as we all have learned in life, is that we are the only ones who can make the decisions right for us. I write a list of the 5 things I must do (rent, food, bills etc) and the 5 things I want to do (family & friends, art as my career, time for myself etc). Every decision I make, I question first, does it satisfy at least one of these things. If not, then I don't have time to do that. And I review this list every 6 months. It really can help getting you back on your feet and achieving you biggest dreams. Stay intouch!
I have also done the wake up to the clock terrified of the time. Only mine said 7:30. I proceeded to desperately call my coworker whom I knew I was working with the next day to say I would be right in, while I was pulling back my hair brushing my teeth and pulling clothes on. She said to me “It’s 7:00 at night. Are you thinking it’s the morning?” That was such a scary situation. It should have been a wake up call more than a year ago. But I sit here today counting down the days of my 30 day resignation notice trying to figure out where things went wrong. So you are correct Gregg. You are not the only one.
Hi, thanks for taking the time to comment. To be honest, I really didn't know what to expect or even hope for from doing this. You are my first comment and I really appreciate you sharing this. The experience really shocked me and this last year has been extremely hard. Although my therapy is really beginning to stop breaking every aspect of my life down, and beginning to put it back together. I really hope you have the support you need for your journey, and I would love to be able to discuss more with you in the future.
Hi Sabina. Thanks for watching and I’m sorry to hear you are suffering from these symptoms. Have you been able to discuss this with your doctor or any other professional? It sounds like you could do with some support. Hugs 🤗
Thanks for sharing! I work remote and am still burnt out lol, even home can't escape it damn- pathological coworkers can really contribute, not a very collaborative respectful environment but drone and controlling
Hi Dusk, you're welcome. Remote working or not, what you are going through is tough and the work environment has a huge affect on our lives. I am sorry to hear you are going though this. I hope my videos help you in some small way.
I’m experiencing this right now and just stepped down from an executive role today. Without notice really-i kept trying to fix it but no one helped. I didn’t “not want to” work- I mentally couldn’t do it all of a sudden at all. I also would fall asleep from after work until 7:30pm the next day, only on weekends. My alarms stopped working for me I didn’t wake up it’s terrifying, mad at everyone and really reactive. Tired all the time. Today after crying trying to get myself into work I just resigned, shut my computer, didn’t think about the repurcussions because living like that for money is NOT worth it. I’m in bed now. Still trying to find what people do next. This happened over only 5-6 months getting much worse as time went on
Hi Bella, thanks for watching and sharing your experience. Sorry to hear it got tonisch a point you had to take such dramatic steps . But thankfully you were able to recognise what was happening and take action. Your right, your health is most important. And I sincerely hope that you are in a position that you can seek some professional help and support. I hope these videos and the comments from others can helping some ways. Please take good care of yourself and stay intouch. If I can offer any advice based on my experience, please ask!
Titling one of your sections as "Empty Shell" hit home for me. It really does feel like I'm an empty shell of the person that I used to be, and I grieve that person every day. So bright, full of hope and life, so tenacious... I miss her.
I really understand. And to be honest, even after all this time I still get that feeling from time to time. But it did fade over time as i begin to replace some of those old behaviours, habits, good and bad, with updated and improve versions of myself that are even better. I wish the same for you. Thanks for watching and hope you are going well in your situation.
My Burnout started 6 years ago, it was un-diagnosed for 3 years and I have still not recovered. I cannot even workout a little bit in the Gym or do anything strenuous. My recovery is still on-going and I mostly engage in walking and getting a better understanding of the emotions. Going through a rough marriage and divorce hasn't helped much.
Gosh mark im just reading through all your comments. Again, thanks for sharing. Sorry to hear this has been such a long journey in your recovery. And messy divorces don’t help much either. Wishing you strength mate and a healthy recovery.
Thank you for sharing 🙏 I walked into my work 8 months ago a confident and high achieving person and an hour later I experienced an extremely traumatic workplace incident that subsequently ripped the lid off my mental health. I'd been working in the role for over 6 years (and the industry and position does have a high burnout rate). I wouldn't wish burnout (including severe PTSD, anxiety, depression and some agoraphobia) on anyone. Peace, love and strength to all ✨️🦋
Thank you for sharing your story. I suffer from extreme stress and anxiety about work, especially working in a high-pressure environment with clients. I truly wish I could take 6 months off. Or rather just stop working forever. Sometimes life just seems so hellish having to work forever.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I can totally relate. 1 year ago I went through a similiar experience. Fast forward 1 year later, I'm finally coming out of the brain and emotional fog. I'm not sure I can ever return back to my occupation because of this experience. 😕
Hi Linda, thanks for watching and for sharing your experience. For me, I realised that my career, was only what I thought I wanted. It ticked all the boxes of what we should be doing within societies norms but it was truly making me happy. I didn’t return. I’m not going to say it was easy. It was a huge upheaval in life but I knew I had to do something that I wasn’t truly passionate about. After rediscovering my passion for art, I’m now pursuing this as a career. Fortunately, I a in a position to do so. Which I thank my lucky stars everyday as I know that’s just not possible for some people. But I can not express enough how that has really helped with my recovery. You can see my new TH-cam channel Gregg The Artivist for this journey following my burnout if you are interested. Wishing you the very best for your future endeavours and health! Hugs 🤗
Thanks for watching. I am in a better place. I still have my ups and downs but many lifestyle changes (sometimes some tough choices) have helped. Appreciate your comments. Hope you are doing well.
I'm currently struggling like this. I also have panic attacks as I feel like basics tasks are taking me longer than normal. I have a fear of losing job. How did you sustain yourself during this time? I'm not sure how I'll pay my bills if I got signed off for so long
Thanks for watching and sharing. Sorry to hear you are suffering. Thankfully I have been paying into an insurance policy for many years incase I’m not able to work. Plus I’m also in a country that recognises mental health issues. Plus I had savings. So a combination of things saw me though. So I’m very grateful these things were in place. And I understand that fearing financial difficulties doesn’t make things easier for you. It’s just an additional stress you don’t need. But I also realise I would have to do simplify my life significantly. It was back to basics and only absolute essentials. And I’ve stuck to this since. It was kind of liberating in its own right. Hope you find support you need. I wish you the best.
Hi Wes, of course you should only share when you are ready. Thanks for watching the video and commenting. I’m sorry to hear you are facing this difficult period. It’s tough but honestly I feel Like I’ve finally made it to the other side. I won’t lie, it wasn’t easy and still have ups and downs. But even when I couldn’t believe it when people were saying there’s light at the end of the tunnel, there really is. My full support goes to you. Feel free to reach out anytime if I can just share more details of my experience. Take care of yourself.
Hi Gregg, Thank you for having the courage to share your story and experience. I know i didn't find this video by coincedence. I have been struggling with a burnout for quite a long time now ( nearly 2 years). ever since i graduated i have been so hard on myself, i have been feeling like i am competing with everyone and that I have fallen into the modern slavery of our world. and currently I am getting so burnt out that i can't even have a serious conversation anymore, i don't wanna hear anyone's voice and sometime i don't even have the strength to move my body. sometimes i even feel like quitting my job and just stay at home forever.
Hi Jazzy, thanks for watching the video but also for your courage to share your experience. I’m really sorry to hear you have been struggling for as long as you have. I really believe the expectations we place on ourselves to compete in today’s environment contributes significantly to burnout. And I’m hearing from more and more people recently graduated who are suffering burnout. Try to be kinder to yourself. It sounds easy to say and its not an easy thing to learn. We have so much pressure to live up to all sorts of expectations from so many different directions. I hope you have a good support network and access also to some professional help to teach you some tools to cope at this time. Wishing you the very best. 🙏🤗
I'm in this extreme state of burnout now for 6 months. I can't make it through the day without having memory issues or sensory overload and anxiety. It's probably been going on since my PhD and father's death, but it escalated after taking Ritalin for my ADD diagnosis. I was a panicking animal for a month. Since then I feel like I'm slowly getting up but it's taking so long and I need a long journey to get where I can normally function as an academic again. 😢 My brain is mush
Greg thank you for this. I was finding someone to relate to as well! I'm a senior in college taking 8 classes and a Behavior technician for children with autism. I did this to myself because I thought I could do it. I thought I could handle it. The prior semester I took 6 classes and worked as an after school teacher and managed to pass all my classes very well and do great qt my job. But because of the pressure to graduate and be impressive (for my parents) I took on more than I could handle and right now I'm just hanging by a thread. Getting out of bed is a miracle sometimes. I click the snooze button more in thr past month than I ever did in my entire lifetime. Basic care is a joke. I take 1 shower a week and brush my teeth 3 or 4 times a week. I eat 1 to 2 meals a day and snack all the time. It's a good thing I'm not a smelly person because lol that'll be horrendous. I still use perfume and wipes and freshen up but that's the extend of that. Working out was a goal of mine but it's a work out just finding the energy to go to class everyday and be the best student I could be. I feel so disconnected from those around me. I feel like I'm missing out buy there Isn't anything I can do about it. I schedule hang outs with friends and they sometimes get the fun wild me. But recently they get the low energy almost disassociated me. Work has been alright but being a Behavior analyst is nothing you just casually walk in and do. It takes 100$ of attention, 100% energy, 100% dedication and focus. I come back from work after 3 classes a day (2 online) to work and assignments and sometimes time with friends and loved ones. Right now I'm skipping all my classes and staying in bed. I have no emotional energy to leave the bed. It's a snow day so my job is ending early so I don't have to go in. I feel so disconnected. So tired. I've been praying that God is my strength. Praying He can help me through these last 2 months (then I can finally graduate) but it's getting harder and harder to put on 'that face' and do my best and excel everytime . I'm severely burnt out as well. Taking a year off sounds like a dream to me but because of financial reasons and job restrictions, I'm afraid I can't do that right now. I just need help. Thank you for this video, I definitely understand some of what you're going through. God bless and rest well
Hi Wanda, I really appreciate you took the time to watch the video but moreso, are brave enough to share your experience. Believe it or not, that is a huge step! I can't begin to tell you when reading this, how I recognise so much of what you are saying. You are not alone. No matter how different and personal each of our experiences are. One thing many people have said to me is being in a position to take time off. I thank my lucky stars everyday that I had this time. I only wish that every country in the world took mental health serious and recognised burnout for what it is. And offer real support to those in need. I can only say, please take your time. It sounds easy top say. I hated people saying it to me. We have to survive. We have to earn money and pay the bills. But you can only do what is possible to do. But my best advice from what you say, is try not to fall deeper into feeling disconnected. Reach out to anyone who will listen, community groups, free services. They are there to support you. And remember, you do that on your terms. When you are able and have the head space to do so. My apologies this late reply. Take good care of yourself and write here anytime to remind yourself, people do care.
I have been experiencing burn out for the last two months. Small upsets feels large, morning headaches, and my sleeping schedule was out-of-whack. I am slowly recovering, but it's hard...
Hi, thanks for watching and sharing. Sorry to hear you are going though this. And you’re right, It is hard! One thing I’ve learnt is that we all recovery in our own time. So give yourself space and whatever time you need. I wish you a healthy recovery. 🤗
Thank you! I was very lucky to be in a position that I could. Lots of people who write here simply can’t. So I’m very grateful for being able to do so. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I hope you been feeling better my dude. I've been goin thru some problems myself and it helps me feel human to hear you share your experience with everyone, thank you.
Hey mate, I appreciate you watching and commenting. Sorry to hear you are going to a rough time. And my apologies for my delayed reply as Ive been off this channel for sometime. I really have improved a lot. It took time. I had many set backs but I am now in a place where I am super positive about what's ahead. Been working on things I am truly passionate about also. Feel free to share or reach out anytime. Loads of helpful and supportive people all experiencing the same as us on here. Please stay intouch. Take care and wishing you a healthy recovery.
Thank you Steph. That’s really appreciated. I have gone up and down through the process and have my good and bad days still. But I e really come such a long way and starting to enjoy things again and focus on my passion for art! Hope you are well. Thanks 🤗🤗
Thanks Bradley… I am doing much better thank you. I’ve changed my career and focused on my passion for art. I still have good days and bad days but I’ve developed a lot of new coping mechanisms and learnt a hell of a lot About myself these last couple of years. I’ve also started a new TH-cam channel called Gregg The Artivist. Feel free to take a look. 🤗
HI. Thanks for watching and sharing. Apologies late reply. Take your time in recovery. My recovery was much slower than I wanted and often my rush to get improving was only setting me back further. Great to see you have a positive outlook. Stay in touch and let us know how you are getting on. Happy holidays and wishing you a Safe and Healthy new year!
You're welcome. Sorry for the late reply. If you are comfortable, feel free to share your experience. There are so many great people here all going through the same. And their experiences and support has really helped me a lot. Wishing you a healthy recovery.
@@AnxiousGregg have been in most stressful health care industry for more than 3 decades. It was about a great title and money so I took abuse. It was lifetime of stress and exhaustion. I have recovered and it is the best thing that happened since I quit for the first time in my life and enjoying being with me for a change. Forgot to mention I am in the USA so I literally have to quit and I don’t get any benefits.
@@user-gz5mx2nd5p glad to hear you are happy with your decision to quit your work. But yes, the USA is notoriously known for its poor employment conditions and health care. Hope you do d something that works perfectly for you and your needs.
Thank you for sharing this, Gregg. I am experiencing the same. Can't bear one more day of work but my position won't let me quit in the next 3 months. Every day I feel like being cut by a thousand knives. When I tried to visit my favourite cafe and trying to bring myself up again, I received a call on a mistake I made at work and I was completely devastated. Not sure how I am going to go back to my normal life, but want to thank you for the video and opening the comment section for all to share and read each other's comments
Hi… thanks for your comments and sharing your experience. It’s really difficult and I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. I truly hope my videos can help in some way. Although looking back at them now I was a bit all over the place when making them but I really was trying to take grip of what I was going through. The one thing I really learnt during this was to set boundaries. And although it sounds difficult with you career and position, maybe you set a boundary of not answering work calls outside of your working hours. Or when you are at least taking 5 minutes to yourself to enjoy a coffee. I appreciate this can be extremely difficult, but you need to give yourself Space. At the end of the day, your company will still keep on going with or with you. But you can’t keep going if it is affecting your health. I hope you can make some space for yourself. Stay intouch. Especially if I can be of any support during this period. Best regards.
Hi Guilhem, how are you getting on? I’m so sorry that I missed your message and only replying now. To be honest, I started doing these videos as a way to understand what was going on with me but it became another pressure. In my old ways it was a little over ambitious and ultimately delaying my healing process. I’ve really learnt a lot about myself and set boundaries I’ve never had before. So much has changed in my life I’m not even sure where to start with an update. I’m thinking about it and hope to publish something soon. Hope your recovery is going well. Please feel free to share. Allerheiligen best.
My job and my finances made me feel like this to the point I got into drugs and got addicted to meth because of it I do it just to feel normal and actually give a crap now hopefully I could get some help like you did
Hi… thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this. You’ll notice in my videos I’m up and down (and all over the place) during making them. And I understand how difficult this process can be. I wish you the most supportive and self caring recovery. I can honestly say 3 years on Ive learnt so much and made so many changes to my life, all for the best. Thanks for commenting and sharing. And always feel free to share or ask questions if you have them. I’m happy to share anything if you think my experience can help you in some way.
Sorry my late reply. Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this. But it does get better. Stay strong and give yourself all the time and space you can, for a health and happy recovery.
H there Greg! Lovey for sharing, thank you! I had some really rough instances over the past period, which hopefully is coming around. One thing I would recommend 'highly', is taking part in Yoga. But ;'hot-flow' yoga and cool flow yoga. Cool flow would be YIN, which is calm, and floor work, stretching and meditation, and Hot flow would be Power Vinyasa, fluid movement with heat. They are both different ends of the spectrum, but will give you a chance to hear and feel how your body is tuned, get in touch. with it, and challenge yourself and regain strength and stamina. Cannot advise this enough.. is an amazing tool, to help your body heal. Best of luck Greg :)
Hey Thomas. Thanks for watching. Hoping better times are ahead for you very soon. Strangely, someone else just introduced me to YIN which I am really liking a lot. I’ve yet to advance up to hot flow. Just at it for two weeks now. Thanks for commenting and recommendation. Greatly appreciated! 🙏🤗
Hi Greg! I hope you are feeling much better since I'm here so long since you posted this. I have been burned out...soon four and a half years since my diagnosis. I'm a nurse and work in psychiatry. I'm feeling better but I couldn't be on sick leave too long so healing and working at the same time has been challenging. Basic personal care is steal the focus of my healing process. Thank you for this video. ❤
Hi Berenice… thanks for watching and more so taking the time to share your experience. I am feeling better but not without my ups and downs still. I can only imagine the difficulties of your situation. My saving grace was insurance that allowed me to take extended time to heel and lucky enough to be in a country whereby my diagnosis is recognised. I’ve made significant changes to my life to be able to cope with the burnout for the better. Not without sacrifice of the things I thought I needed (or we are told we need). So I live very simple nowadays and I focus my attention on my art. It’s been a big adjustment but I never realised until this how true the saying ‘your health is your wealth!’ I put my health above all else. I do wish you all the best with your recovery. Hugs.
Well done mate 👍 one day you will tell your story of how you overcome what your going through now and it will become someone else's survival guide , your not alone
I'm sorry this happened to you... But I'm glad you made this video. I don't feel so alone in my experience. This is exactly what happened to me and for the exact same reasons- unresolved issues concerning PTSD that I thought I conquered from my childhood and into my adult life with choices made from my childhood experiences. It was like having to swim through the 20 years of pain, abandonment, and abuse all at once... This brought with it major depression and anxiety, which are things I'm still learning to balance and understand. When I finally figured out the general direction I had to take to work through all this, it took me years to get to a mentally comfortable mind frame... And one amazing man who's supported me the past year through any triggers that caused unnecessary, but very real fear and anxiety to take over my brain. I've learned a lot about the brain, both anatomically and psychologically. I still don't feel like the person I was before this all happened- the person I had wished I could be once again through this whole situation. I don't think we can ever go back to the person we once were.. I think this will always be with us, but through time and help with healing, I think we can all go from victim to survivor and find a new, wiser version of ourselves. We can find a sense of peace.
Hi Kristina, thank you for watching and moreso, for sharing your experience. Although difficult, I love reading your thoughtful reflection of your experience with such hope and optimism. I am of course sorry to hear you have been through this but so glad you have had support and understanding along the way. Hugs for your healthy recovery and becoming an even better you!
I was doing ok until I got into therapy and realized why I had no memory of any of childhood and adulthood. I’m struggling with depression and anxiety and severe depression anxiety and memory loss ( started a new job and feel completely overwhelmed). One thing it’s doing is getting back to God and that’s good. Praying for all here
2 years I studied for my exam to get into med school. At first I had so much motivation because my mental health and motivation was so high. But as months went by I didnt realise my motivation would leave, I was running on empty for months before one night I had a major nervous breakdown because I couldn’t fall asleep and I thought I was wasting time and energy I could otherwise spend on revising. Since then I had more anxious breakdowns and I felt restless all the time. When I’m supposed to be relaxing on my own I felt completely depressed. This has never been me and it caught me completely off guard. Eventually I finished the exams with flying colours but a year after the exam I’m still stuck with constant unaccounted feelings of anxiety and depression. I constantly felt on edge, at least had one anxious breakdown per week, felt depressed for most days and I could seldom relax completely. I thought that with less work time my mental health would go accordingly but no. Anyway, I have just seen my psychiatrist a week ago and got diagnosed with anxiety disorder. I have never looked into the possibility of anxiety disorder simply because I don’t find my symptoms lying in line with any type of anxiety (GAD/ PSTD/ Social anxiety/phobia etc) mostly because my anxious feeling doesn’t really derive from thoughts, they simply creep up as they want to. But the psychiatrist opened the option for me to take meds to get better because I have been fighting anxiety for 1.5 years. I hope that with the meds my anxiety disorder would improve. I have sort of accepted slowly that this is a disease that will stick with me for life, like diabetes etc. What I have learnt is that the anti burnout advertisement in this face paced, effectiveness/hard-work stressing world is very overlooked. Secondly, depression or anxiety after burnout is actually a form of mental illness that is seldom addressed in medical terms.
I’m currently experiencing server burnout with my work. I write for a living but I would write almost every single day of my life, and now I hit a point that even thinking of plot points and or characters gives me a headache and it sucks. Not to mention that I became addicted to writing and fully knowing that if I do I’ll get a painful headache, how should I combat this.
Hi. Thanks for watching and sharing. Apologies late reply. For starters I’m not really able to give advice on your specific situation. I can only speak from my own experiences. But without doubt having a burnout meant to me the need for time to give my head and body space to heal. To let out more than i took in for awhile. And then it was reflection to see what was the root cause going on in my life. It’s often not just the activity of work. Addiction of course is another thing altogether. I too suffered addiction as you may see in my other videos. I would highly recommend you speak to a professional. I hope you have access to this type of help. Wishing you a healthy recovery.
Sometimes we all get lost and we do actually need to rediscover happiness to carry on that journey of happiness being the way. Our modern lives often make us believe we are happy with so many distractions whereby the true happiness is often the simple things we forget or don’t make time for. That’s my experience anyways. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I'm in the US... My boss would let me off to recover bc we're therapists and he gets it... But I don't have the resources to support it and our short term disability insurance specifically doesn't cover burnout (and that's only up to 6 months... Government long term disability definitely doesn't allow it. They hardly even approve people with things like treatment resistant schzophrenia). I've definitely had that shell of myself thing going... I'm trying to figure out if I need to leave the field (which I really don't want to do) and how I might be able to heal while still working since we don't have the social programs to let me take time off to heal.
Thanks for watching and sharing!! Im sorry that you are going through this. I also hear the same from so many people in the US about the lack of support from health system and insurance recognising burnout. Its appalling a country can spend billions on defense, and yet still prioritises economy over the health of its people. I’m really sorry to hear you don’t have the support you need or deserve to take time to heal properly. The extra stress of worrying financially or otherwise doesn’t help. I do hope you find a solution that allows you to recover and continue in your field of work that you love. For me I couldn’t return to that corporate environment. But I also realised I didn’t love it. So I’ve had to make many changes to my lifestyle to accommodate living more simple. I wish you the very best. And appreciate you took the time to write.
@@AnxiousGregg thank you. I've honestly started considering trying to move to another country. I have a license that a lot of other countries have sponsored migration programs for. And I think a lot of my burnout is specifically from working within the US healthcare system. But I have friends and family here. It's not an easy choice.
Hi Jeff, thanks for taking the time to watch the video and commenting. I'm sorry to hear you are going through the same. Simply put, it's tough. And although I still have days where I truly feel right back to this time, I just want to say I've learnt so much about myself these last couple of years that have really helped me move forward. Take your time. Listen to yourself. Seek some professional help to support you though this if possible. But most importantly, talk to people about it. You will be surprised just how many people can really understand you. I wish you all the very best. There is light at the end of the tunnel. best, Gregg
Hi Greg! How are you doing now? Are you able to do the things you were once able to do? I am going through this and have decided to quit my job and take a 2 month break. I hope it’s enough time for me. How long did it take you to recover? Did you fully recover? I noticed my anxiety is completely gone now that I am not working. All my body wants to do is sleep and watch TV lol. I wouldn’t say I’m depressed. It feels like my body just can’t take anymore. The sadness comes from the life I once had but I don’t care anymore. I just know I need to take my health seriously. Any tips and advice? I’d love to chat offline as well. I’d really appreciate it! Thanks 😄😁
Hi Samatha, I'm sorry for my late reply. I've been off the channel for sometime as I've been busy working on a new project. Firstly thanks for watching and sharing your experience. How is it going>? How are you feeling? Are you back to work? So many questions. But would love to hear an update from you. Unfortunately my burnout came about from years of issues and habits work related. I spent a nearly two years in solid therapy and still today see a therapist regularly. My only advice I can really give, is to give you body first all the time it needs to relax and recovery. As you say, take your health serious. Its easy to fall into the trap off thinking you are recovering yet not getting exercise, eating badly (or in some cases not as all) and spending lots of time in front of the TV. I really found spending time watching TV and reading news or heavy books really wasn't helping my mind. It was replacing the issues of burnout with all sorts of other nonsense. So I'm now super careful what I watch and read to allow my brain space to process and be creative. Art has been a huge help to me also. Stay intouch - let us know how you are! Happy holidays, and wishing you a healthy and safe New year.
Hi Gregg, just happened upon your video as my daughter sent me a video about burnout and I decided to search on it again. My story is a long one so won't go into any of it now. But, did want to tell you that prolonged stress deactivates the prefrontal cortex of the brain. This is also known as the CEO of our brain and helps us to structure activities. Brain scans show that the area will become inactive. Meditation can help to calm the brain. Anyway, the reason you were not able to fix yourself and awareness was lower was for this reason.
@@AnxiousGregg th-cam.com/video/_ry8DEG8Cs0/w-d-xo.html This video is from Dr Daniel Amen. He owns the Amen Clinics. He specializes in healthy brains. I think you will love his videos as he talks about what was learned from doing over 100k brain scans.
Thank you for this video Gregg it lets me know I’m not alone in burnout. I suggest you do regular intermittent napping to get rid of stress for this is what I’ve done to get rid of stress. This comment is from a “Hindu” man whose name is Gautam Tolat.
Hi. Thank you so much for watching and for commenting with advice! I’m sorry to hear you also have struggled with burnout. I thinking napping is a great suggestion. For me I find sleep really important to give me time to process my racing brain! I wish you a healthy recovery! Thank you again 🙏🤗
@@AnxiousGregg Thank you. May I suggest you give into God too if you haven’t yet already. You can give into God by doing what God tells you to do. Giving into God will give you amazing results for recovery. I bear testimony to this. This comment is from a “Hindu” man whose name is Gautam Tolat.
Hey, Im really sorry to hear your situation. I can only image how difficult it is when your employers just don't understand. It may also be a sign as to why you are burnt out - working in that kind of environment where employees health is over looked. I really hope you find a solution for your situation. keep in touch and thanks for watching and sharing. Wishing you the best. 🤗
To be honest, it was such a blur and hit me so unexpectedly, I can't say for sure. But I attended a therapy called 'Emotional Regulation'. It really helped me these last years re-connect to my emotions, and recognise them as I was feeling them and better still, understand them.
For the last few weeks all of the sudden I have severe panic attacks thinkin in that moment that my organs are exploding from the inside any moment, light headed, arms and legs goin numb, my breathing is like totally off.. man I thought it to be the last time last week, untill yesterday, I was shopping for paint to redo my house, all of the sudden I get this shit right in the middle of the store for no apparent reason. Mann I hate this shit.. -_-
Hi, Thanks for watching. Apologies my late reply Ive been offline away from the channel for awhile now. Really sorry to hear you are experiencing such powerful attacks. I really understand. They are totally crippling and worrying which just adds to the problem. Have you been able to see anyone to talk to about this?
Sorry to hear you are having a hard time also. I found panic attacks the worst. But with help I was able to find coping mechanisms to deal with them. Stay intouch.
Hey Josh. Thanks for watching and your comment. I got therapy. It took some months before I could be seen by anyone. But after that things really started to become clear what was going on in my life, how I was dealing with things. And learning that thruways I used Gondi things no longer served me well. So I began to learn new ways. I had CBT therapy. I also had emotional regulation therapy. And I had EMDR therapy for PTSD. You can see more in the other videos in my channel. But mostly I took time off work to recover. You can see more in my other videos.
Hi. Thanks for watching and commenting. I agree. I am very thankful that I am in a country that not only recognises the condition but had the support in place to assist. It’s not perfect of course. I was waiting for 9 months for help but there is something here. I hope you have some support you need.🙏🤗
Im currently experiencing severe anxiety and depression at work. Its consumed me to the point where I feel I'm not competent to work(especially since my job involves patients ).I have started having both physical and mental symptoms -memory lapses, confusion, headaches, chest pains. I wake up crying and will often cry at work in the toilet from feeling not good enough and overwhelmed. Im considering taking quitting and taking several months off. Im glad that there are people willing to speak out about their experiences even though there is still a stigma attached to this. Seeing others recover gives those suffering hope.
How are you now
@@ljnv thank you for checking in ..
I dwelled in it for a year more ..and it was unbearable ..finally made the decision to change things ...my main problem I realised was that my job wasn't fulfilling at all among other things...I'm finally quitting and going back to my first field of work which was hard but very fulfilling...I feel happier and content after making the decision to quit !
@piperj thank you..yes I feel so much better
@@ljnv for me things are much better. Still with ups and downs. Thanks for watching. 🙏🤗
i fully know what you mean about the "stigma" of this i find little empathy and lots of rejection when i tell my story. people are so unsympathetic to something they've never been through.
I am in the midst of a work burnout at the moment and it’s really difficult to understand as it came completely out of the blue. Thank you for this video
Hi. Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this challenging period. I completely understand when you say it came out of the blue! I wish you the very best on your road to recovery. Stay intouch and know there are many of us out here to help support each other. Best Gregg
Dear Gregg, thank you for having the bravery to share your experiences. Total respect to you.
Sorry for the delayed reply and thank you. this was my way of doing and trying to cope with everything. I hope it helps others also.
ive had 10 years of hell. i can't find now any reason to motivate myself. luckily my parents died and i received an inheritance. my burnout has led to adrenal fatigue, light sensitivity, body aches. loss of friendships, my ptsd has been exhacerbated by multiple rejections as i try and find support.
Im so sorry to hear that your experience has been going on for so many years. I can’t imagine what that must be like. I sincerely hope you do find the support you need and are able to have a healthy recovery. Thanks for sharing. I hope you also find support from my videos and the others here commenting. 🤗🙏
I've had similar..... Leading to anxiety, deep suicidal depression, reliance of drugs (still do), I wasn't working and life became small and dark. I took the courage to volunteer at an animal shelter, and I have a sense of purpose. My hell lasted about 6 years, with suicide often my only solution. I understand and keep up the videos❤️
Hi Lynette, thanks for watch and sharing your experience. Sorry that it was so bad to the point of suicide. I truly feel for you having to have gone to such dark places. Volunteering is amazing! Good for you. Thanks for your support. hugs 🤗
You may have saved my life.
@@ginaburton1960 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Turning to God is the only way I’m going to get thru all this. Much love and prayers to all here
Hi Grace. I know a lot of people here have said that they really found their beliefs, religion and community a great support to them. I’m glad you have that to turn to during this difficult period in life. I wish you the best. Thanks for watching and commenting . Much appreciated 🙏
I worked as a middle manager in one facility for approx 5 yrs, coordinating 5 full-time, several permanent part-time and casual staff. I had difficulty in the role on many fronts. I did the best I could and tried to provide support with best practice in mind, I had burnt myself out, unfortunately the worst was to come. My department and another department ended up merging in a new facility where my staff base grew to over 25 staff with a mixture of full-time, perm-part and casual. I continued to push myself for another 2 yrs. I worked beyond my resources, mentally, physically, emotionally and had a severe burn out with extreme anxiety, fatigue, anger, resentment, suicidal thoughts and stress. I was completely worn out. I've since transferred out of the facility to another facility in a reduced role. It's been 2 yrs since I transferred and even though I've second guessed my decision to leave my role, it was the best decision I've made. I'm slowly finding myself, I've got a way to go still.
Hi. Thanks for watching and moreso, thanks for sharing your experience. Firstly, sorry to hear you have been through this experience. I think I’m our careers we often take on more than we can in the way of progression. Whether it’s something we want or we don’t want. In your case, sounds like the merge was company driven rather than your desire for the team to grow. Im glad you were able to transfer out of that situation. I do hope you have a healthy recovery. It’s 3 years on for me and to be honest, my life is very different. And I still have my ups and downs. But I am much more aware of my boundaries and limitations. And knowing this helps a lot.
I left my first corporate job recently, I worked there for 3 years. I have no more savings. No money to live off and pay the bills or we are homeless. Unfortunately I'm stuck looking desperately for another job. Nobody wants me, and the only jobs available are 12-14hr jobs in warehouse or call center, never touching those jobs. I just can't take it or I just wouldn't want to live anymore. I'm just stressed and anxious 24/7. I have a chronic illness which makes everything harder. Nobody cares. I've tried everything possible to make money, even stupid things. I run multiple online businesses, have multiple TH-cam Channels, I spent all my savings on trying to become a voice actor, which was my passion and the most i've made in a year is $30. I worked so freaking hard, even during my full time job all I did was grind outside of my job. I can't do this anymore, how do people live like this. My whole family thinks i'm a disgrace as I left a good paying job, but it was super toxic and stressful. Constant deadlines, daily meetings and managers making you stay unpaid overtime. I'm only 23. I can't do this for another 40+ years. I wish I knew what to do... I'm burned out too, all I do is voice acting for free and I'm too busy nowadays to even take on small paid jobs. Just sick of this bullshit society.
Hi, Im sorry for the late reply. Ive been off the channel for sometime. I'm sorry to hear the difficult times you are going through. Living in the world we do, the pressure put on us to earn money to just survive is incredible hard. And often we are presented with difficult choices to make over doing the things that we really want to. Leaving a job because it is toxic and stressful isn't disgraceful. You must protect yourself. But in doing so, it does also mean you have to sometimes make short term compromises to be able to achieve your goals win the long term. It took my 35 years of working before I realised I could make my passion for art my career. I did everything from washing dishes to cleaning buildings, to get myself into a better position. Maybe try and not look at the jobs at the call centres or warehouses as not achieving your goals. See them as a short term steps to help your immediate situation, and take you to the next step you want to go. You have it in you to make the right choices for you. this maybe hard to hear now when everything is falling apart. But the truth its, as we all have learned in life, is that we are the only ones who can make the decisions right for us. I write a list of the 5 things I must do (rent, food, bills etc) and the 5 things I want to do (family & friends, art as my career, time for myself etc). Every decision I make, I question first, does it satisfy at least one of these things. If not, then I don't have time to do that. And I review this list every 6 months. It really can help getting you back on your feet and achieving you biggest dreams. Stay intouch!
How are you now? Has life gotten any better?
I have also done the wake up to the clock terrified of the time. Only mine said 7:30. I proceeded to desperately call my coworker whom I knew I was working with the next day to say I would be right in, while I was pulling back my hair brushing my teeth and pulling clothes on. She said to me “It’s 7:00 at night. Are you thinking it’s the morning?” That was such a scary situation. It should have been a wake up call more than a year ago. But I sit here today counting down the days of my 30 day resignation notice trying to figure out where things went wrong. So you are correct Gregg. You are not the only one.
Hi, thanks for taking the time to comment. To be honest, I really didn't know what to expect or even hope for from doing this. You are my first comment and I really appreciate you sharing this. The experience really shocked me and this last year has been extremely hard. Although my therapy is really beginning to stop breaking every aspect of my life down, and beginning to put it back together. I really hope you have the support you need for your journey, and I would love to be able to discuss more with you in the future.
Thank you for this video I’m having same problem one year now constant feeling of fed up and emptiness, anxiety, sadness, fear
Hi Sabina. Thanks for watching and I’m sorry to hear you are suffering from these symptoms. Have you been able to discuss this with your doctor or any other professional? It sounds like you could do with some support. Hugs 🤗
@@AnxiousGregg yes I had CBT therapy, hypnotherapy and tomorrow I’m starting embr therapy hoping to feel better soon 🤞and I’m on antidepressants 15 ml
@@sabinaenver1177 thanks for sharing. I wish you all the success in a healthy recovery. Stay intouch and let me know how you are getting on! 🙏🤗
You're not alone bud. I hope you found the peace.
Thanks for sharing! I work remote and am still burnt out lol, even home can't escape it damn- pathological coworkers can really contribute, not a very collaborative respectful environment but drone and controlling
Hi Dusk, you're welcome. Remote working or not, what you are going through is tough and the work environment has a huge affect on our lives. I am sorry to hear you are going though this. I hope my videos help you in some small way.
@@AnxiousGregg Thanks man! It's getting better - been implementing a lot more exercise in my life. Undeniably helps with stress management.
I’m experiencing this right now and just stepped down from an executive role today. Without notice really-i kept trying to fix it but no one helped. I didn’t “not want to” work- I mentally couldn’t do it all of a sudden at all. I also would fall asleep from after work until 7:30pm the next day, only on weekends. My alarms stopped working for me I didn’t wake up it’s terrifying, mad at everyone and really reactive. Tired all the time. Today after crying trying to get myself into work I just resigned, shut my computer, didn’t think about the repurcussions because living like that for money is NOT worth it. I’m in bed now. Still trying to find what people do next. This happened over only 5-6 months getting much worse as time went on
Hi Bella, thanks for watching and sharing your experience. Sorry to hear it got tonisch a point you had to take such dramatic steps . But thankfully you were able to recognise what was happening and take action. Your right, your health is most important. And I sincerely hope that you are in a position that you can seek some professional help and support. I hope these videos and the comments from others can helping some ways. Please take good care of yourself and stay intouch. If I can offer any advice based on my experience, please ask!
Praying for you ❤ can relate
Titling one of your sections as "Empty Shell" hit home for me. It really does feel like I'm an empty shell of the person that I used to be, and I grieve that person every day. So bright, full of hope and life, so tenacious... I miss her.
I really understand. And to be honest, even after all this time I still get that feeling from time to time. But it did fade over time as i begin to replace some of those old behaviours, habits, good and bad, with updated and improve versions of myself that are even better. I wish the same for you. Thanks for watching and hope you are going well in your situation.
My Burnout started 6 years ago, it was un-diagnosed for 3 years and I have still not recovered. I cannot even workout a little bit in the Gym or do anything strenuous.
My recovery is still on-going and I mostly engage in walking and getting a better understanding of the emotions. Going through a rough marriage and divorce hasn't helped much.
Gosh mark im just reading through all your comments. Again, thanks for sharing. Sorry to hear this has been such a long journey in your recovery. And messy divorces don’t help much either. Wishing you strength mate and a healthy recovery.
This is how I know you are not in the USA: you went to medical leave for it. I got two weeks off and my job was already being offered to someone else.
Yes -we don’t have the luxury of doing that is USA
Unionize, American brothers and sisters! You're stronger together than when you are apart.
@@cheriwhitman9443 other countries,have that right... not luxury
I hate living in the United States...
@@nexusoflife other countries are crying out for skilled workers.
you could look into Australia. we are nice.
Thank you for sharing 🙏 I walked into my work 8 months ago a confident and high achieving person and an hour later I experienced an extremely traumatic workplace incident that subsequently ripped the lid off my mental health. I'd been working in the role for over 6 years (and the industry and position does have a high burnout rate). I wouldn't wish burnout (including severe PTSD, anxiety, depression and some agoraphobia) on anyone. Peace, love and strength to all ✨️🦋
Thank you for sharing your story. I suffer from extreme stress and anxiety about work, especially working in a high-pressure environment with clients. I truly wish I could take 6 months off. Or rather just stop working forever. Sometimes life just seems so hellish having to work forever.
Thanks for watching and sharing. Sorry to hear you are suffering from such extreme stress. Have you found any support?
Thank you for sharing your experience. I can totally relate. 1 year ago I went through a similiar experience. Fast forward 1 year later, I'm finally coming out of the brain and emotional fog. I'm not sure I can ever return back to my occupation because of this experience. 😕
Hi Linda, thanks for watching and for sharing your experience. For me, I realised that my career, was only what I thought I wanted. It ticked all the boxes of what we should be doing within societies norms but it was truly making me happy. I didn’t return. I’m not going to say it was easy. It was a huge upheaval in life but I knew I had to do something that I wasn’t truly passionate about. After rediscovering my passion for art, I’m now pursuing this as a career. Fortunately, I a in a position to do so. Which I thank my lucky stars everyday as I know that’s just not possible for some people. But I can not express enough how that has really helped with my recovery. You can see my new TH-cam channel Gregg The Artivist for this journey following my burnout if you are interested. Wishing you the very best for your future endeavours and health! Hugs 🤗
Thanks for sharing and being open..hope you are in a better place now 🙏
Thanks for watching. I am in a better place. I still have my ups and downs but many lifestyle changes (sometimes some tough choices) have helped. Appreciate your comments. Hope you are doing well.
I'm currently struggling like this. I also have panic attacks as I feel like basics tasks are taking me longer than normal. I have a fear of losing job. How did you sustain yourself during this time? I'm not sure how I'll pay my bills if I got signed off for so long
Thanks for watching and sharing. Sorry to hear you are suffering. Thankfully I have been paying into an insurance policy for many years incase I’m not able to work. Plus I’m also in a country that recognises mental health issues. Plus I had savings. So a combination of things saw me though. So I’m very grateful these things were in place. And I understand that fearing financial difficulties doesn’t make things easier for you. It’s just an additional stress you don’t need. But I also realise I would have to do simplify my life significantly. It was back to basics and only absolute essentials. And I’ve stuck to this since. It was kind of liberating in its own right. Hope you find support you need. I wish you the best.
I am not ready to share yet but I commend you, I am in an eerily similar position you described. I hope you are doing well.
Hi Wes, of course you should only share when you are ready. Thanks for watching the video and commenting. I’m sorry to hear you are facing this difficult period. It’s tough but honestly I feel
Like I’ve finally made it to the other side. I won’t lie, it wasn’t easy and still have ups and downs. But even when I couldn’t believe it when people were saying there’s light at the end of the tunnel, there really is. My full support goes to you. Feel free to reach out anytime if I can just share more details of my experience. Take care of yourself.
Hi Gregg, Thank you for having the courage to share your story and experience. I know i didn't find this video by coincedence. I have been struggling with a burnout for quite a long time now ( nearly 2 years). ever since i graduated i have been so hard on myself, i have been feeling like i am competing with everyone and that I have fallen into the modern slavery of our world. and currently I am getting so burnt out that i can't even have a serious conversation anymore, i don't wanna hear anyone's voice and sometime i don't even have the strength to move my body. sometimes i even feel like quitting my job and just stay at home forever.
Hi Jazzy, thanks for watching the video but also for your courage to share your experience. I’m really sorry to hear you have been struggling for as long as you have. I really believe the expectations we place on ourselves to compete in today’s environment contributes significantly to burnout. And I’m hearing from more and more people recently graduated who are suffering burnout. Try to be kinder to yourself. It sounds easy to say and its not an easy thing to learn. We have so much pressure to live up to all sorts of expectations from so many different directions. I hope you have a good support network and access also to some professional help to teach you some tools to cope at this time. Wishing you the very best. 🙏🤗
Thank you for being brave enough to tell your story. It inspires others and normalizes stuff we are all affected by yet unaware of.
Thanks Antonio… i appreciate you took the time to watch and thanks for your kind words and comment. 🙏
Thank you so much!
I'm in this extreme state of burnout now for 6 months. I can't make it through the day without having memory issues or sensory overload and anxiety. It's probably been going on since my PhD and father's death, but it escalated after taking Ritalin for my ADD diagnosis. I was a panicking animal for a month. Since then I feel like I'm slowly getting up but it's taking so long and I need a long journey to get where I can normally function as an academic again. 😢 My brain is mush
Greg thank you for this. I was finding someone to relate to as well! I'm a senior in college taking 8 classes and a Behavior technician for children with autism. I did this to myself because I thought I could do it. I thought I could handle it. The prior semester I took 6 classes and worked as an after school teacher and managed to pass all my classes very well and do great qt my job.
But because of the pressure to graduate and be impressive (for my parents) I took on more than I could handle and right now I'm just hanging by a thread.
Getting out of bed is a miracle sometimes.
I click the snooze button more in thr past month than I ever did in my entire lifetime.
Basic care is a joke. I take 1 shower a week and brush my teeth 3 or 4 times a week. I eat 1 to 2 meals a day and snack all the time. It's a good thing I'm not a smelly person because lol that'll be horrendous. I still use perfume and wipes and freshen up but that's the extend of that.
Working out was a goal of mine but it's a work out just finding the energy to go to class everyday and be the best student I could be.
I feel so disconnected from those around me. I feel like I'm missing out buy there Isn't anything I can do about it. I schedule hang outs with friends and they sometimes get the fun wild me. But recently they get the low energy almost disassociated me.
Work has been alright but being a Behavior analyst is nothing you just casually walk in and do. It takes 100$ of attention, 100% energy, 100% dedication and focus. I come back from work after 3 classes a day (2 online) to work and assignments and sometimes time with friends and loved ones.
Right now I'm skipping all my classes and staying in bed. I have no emotional energy to leave the bed. It's a snow day so my job is ending early so I don't have to go in.
I feel so disconnected. So tired.
I've been praying that God is my strength. Praying He can help me through these last 2 months (then I can finally graduate) but it's getting harder and harder to put on 'that face' and do my best and excel everytime .
I'm severely burnt out as well. Taking a year off sounds like a dream to me but because of financial reasons and job restrictions, I'm afraid I can't do that right now.
I just need help.
Thank you for this video, I definitely understand some of what you're going through. God bless and rest well
Hi Wanda, I really appreciate you took the time to watch the video but moreso, are brave enough to share your experience. Believe it or not, that is a huge step! I can't begin to tell you when reading this, how I recognise so much of what you are saying. You are not alone. No matter how different and personal each of our experiences are.
One thing many people have said to me is being in a position to take time off. I thank my lucky stars everyday that I had this time. I only wish that every country in the world took mental health serious and recognised burnout for what it is. And offer real support to those in need.
I can only say, please take your time. It sounds easy top say. I hated people saying it to me. We have to survive. We have to earn money and pay the bills. But you can only do what is possible to do.
But my best advice from what you say, is try not to fall deeper into feeling disconnected. Reach out to anyone who will listen, community groups, free services. They are there to support you. And remember, you do that on your terms. When you are able and have the head space to do so.
My apologies this late reply. Take good care of yourself and write here anytime to remind yourself, people do care.
sorry you are going through this.....How are you doing now?
God Bless You! Sending Good Vibes and hugs to You!
Thank you!! 🙏🤗
I have been experiencing burn out for the last two months. Small upsets feels large, morning headaches, and my sleeping schedule was out-of-whack. I am slowly recovering, but it's hard...
Hi, thanks for watching and sharing. Sorry to hear you are going though this. And you’re right, It is hard! One thing I’ve learnt is that we all recovery in our own time. So give yourself space and whatever time you need. I wish you a healthy recovery. 🤗
I feel your situation entirely. I’m there and struggling every day….
You are very fortunate to have people in your life skilled enough to recognize this
Hi. I think your question posted twice. I answered the previous message. See my response there. Thanks again for watching and commenting 🙏🤗
So glad you took a year off
Thank you! I was very lucky to be in a position that I could. Lots of people who write here simply can’t. So I’m very grateful for being able to do so. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I hope you been feeling better my dude. I've been goin thru some problems myself and it helps me feel human to hear you share your experience with everyone, thank you.
Hey mate, I appreciate you watching and commenting. Sorry to hear you are going to a rough time. And my apologies for my delayed reply as Ive been off this channel for sometime. I really have improved a lot. It took time. I had many set backs but I am now in a place where I am super positive about what's ahead. Been working on things I am truly passionate about also. Feel free to share or reach out anytime. Loads of helpful and supportive people all experiencing the same as us on here. Please stay intouch. Take care and wishing you a healthy recovery.
@@AnxiousGregghello Gregg, any way to contact you elsewhere?
@@santeenl you can email me anxiousgregg@gmail.com
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching 🙏🙏
Glad you've got the help and support you needed, and you're thriving again. Thanks for sharing, and take care. ✌🏽
Thank you Steph. That’s really appreciated. I have gone up and down through the process and have my good and bad days still. But I e really come such a long way and starting to enjoy things again and focus on my passion for art! Hope you are well. Thanks 🤗🤗
I'm dealing with it, it feels like it's never going to get better for me. It's a lonely feeling.
Big hugs bro. I hope you are doing ok.
Thanks Bradley… I am doing much better thank you. I’ve changed my career and focused on my passion for art. I still have good days and bad days but I’ve developed a lot of new coping mechanisms and learnt a hell of a lot About myself these last couple of years. I’ve also started a new TH-cam channel called Gregg The Artivist. Feel free to take a look. 🤗
Thank you so much for sharing! I’m recovering as well and hope to be in a better place in the future.
HI. Thanks for watching and sharing. Apologies late reply. Take your time in recovery. My recovery was much slower than I wanted and often my rush to get improving was only setting me back further. Great to see you have a positive outlook. Stay in touch and let us know how you are getting on. Happy holidays and wishing you a Safe and Healthy new year!
Thanks for sharing. I am recovering
You're welcome. Sorry for the late reply. If you are comfortable, feel free to share your experience. There are so many great people here all going through the same. And their experiences and support has really helped me a lot. Wishing you a healthy recovery.
@@AnxiousGregg have been in most stressful health care industry for more than 3 decades. It was about a great title and money so I took abuse. It was lifetime of stress and exhaustion. I have recovered and it is the best thing that happened since I quit for the first time in my life and enjoying being with me for a change. Forgot to mention I am in the USA so I literally have to quit and I don’t get any benefits.
@@user-gz5mx2nd5p glad to hear you are happy with your decision to quit your work. But yes, the USA is notoriously known for its poor employment conditions and health care. Hope you do d something that works perfectly for you and your needs.
@@AnxiousGregg thank you so much. How are you doing
@@user-gz5mx2nd5p Im doing well. thanks for asking
I really enjoyed hearing your experience, thank you!
Hi Lauren. Thanks for watching and for your comment. I hope you are doing well in your situation. 🤗
I appreciate you sharing your honest reflections. Strengthening for me. Thank you.
Hi Vivien, thank you for watching and commenting. I’m glad my videos are able to help you in some way. Support and hugs for your healthy recovery.
Thank you for sharing this, Gregg. I am experiencing the same. Can't bear one more day of work but my position won't let me quit in the next 3 months. Every day I feel like being cut by a thousand knives. When I tried to visit my favourite cafe and trying to bring myself up again, I received a call on a mistake I made at work and I was completely devastated. Not sure how I am going to go back to my normal life, but want to thank you for the video and opening the comment section for all to share and read each other's comments
Hi… thanks for your comments and sharing your experience. It’s really difficult and I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. I truly hope my videos can help in some way. Although looking back at them now I was a bit all over the place when making them but I really was trying to take grip of what I was going through. The one thing I really learnt during this was to set boundaries. And although it sounds difficult with you career and position, maybe you set a boundary of not answering work calls outside of your working hours. Or when you are at least taking 5 minutes to yourself to enjoy a coffee. I appreciate this can be extremely difficult, but you need to give yourself Space. At the end of the day, your company will still keep on going with or with you. But you can’t keep going if it is affecting your health. I hope you can make some space for yourself. Stay intouch. Especially if I can be of any support during this period. Best regards.
Hi - thank you for your honest authentic account of what burnout feels like - what can lead to it and perpetuate it. This will help so many people!
Thanks for watching and your comments. Much appreciated! I do hope my experiences can help others! 🙏🤗
@@AnxiousGregg I'm sure you will help many people!
Thank you ! 👏🏻
Thanks for watching and for your support 🙏🤗
Hi Gregg, would be lovely to hear how you are doing now I have also burn out and been given 3 medications to help me stand up.Sending love x
Hi Guilhem, how are you getting on? I’m so sorry that I missed your message and only replying now. To be honest, I started doing these videos as a way to understand what was going on with me but it became another pressure. In my old ways it was a little over ambitious and ultimately delaying my healing process. I’ve really learnt a lot about myself and set boundaries I’ve never had before. So much has changed in my life I’m not even sure where to start with an update. I’m thinking about it and hope to publish something soon. Hope your recovery is going well. Please feel free to share. Allerheiligen best.
My job and my finances made me feel like this to the point I got into drugs and got addicted to meth because of it I do it just to feel normal and actually give a crap now hopefully I could get some help like you did
Thank you for this! I'm going through this right now. Great explanation on how you were feeling. Hope you are doing better now
Hi… thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this. You’ll notice in my videos I’m up and down (and all over the place) during making them. And I understand how difficult this process can be. I wish you the most supportive and self caring recovery. I can honestly say 3 years on Ive learnt so much and made so many changes to my life, all for the best. Thanks for commenting and sharing. And always feel free to share or ask questions if you have them. I’m happy to share anything if you think my experience can help you in some way.
Thank you for this it’s so brave and really helpful ! Going through this now and everything you have said is so relatable ❤
Sorry my late reply. Thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you are going through this. But it does get better. Stay strong and give yourself all the time and space you can, for a health and happy recovery.
H there Greg! Lovey for sharing, thank you! I had some really rough instances over the past period, which hopefully is coming around. One thing I would recommend 'highly', is taking part in Yoga. But ;'hot-flow' yoga and cool flow yoga. Cool flow would be YIN, which is calm, and floor work, stretching and meditation, and Hot flow would be Power Vinyasa, fluid movement with heat. They are both different ends of the spectrum, but will give you a chance to hear and feel how your body is tuned, get in touch. with it, and challenge yourself and regain strength and stamina. Cannot advise this enough.. is an amazing tool, to help your body heal. Best of luck Greg :)
Hey Thomas. Thanks for watching. Hoping better times are ahead for you very soon. Strangely, someone else just introduced me to YIN which I am really liking a lot. I’ve yet to advance up to hot flow. Just at it for two weeks now. Thanks for commenting and recommendation. Greatly appreciated! 🙏🤗
thank you for sharing your story. i have so much compassion for you. i know first hand what you are going through.
Thank you for watching and thanks for your support! I’m sorry to hear you know this experience yourself. 🙏🤗
Hi Greg! I hope you are feeling much better since I'm here so long since you posted this.
I have been burned out...soon four and a half years since my diagnosis. I'm a nurse and work in psychiatry.
I'm feeling better but I couldn't be on sick leave too long so healing and working at the same time has been challenging.
Basic personal care is steal the focus of my healing process. Thank you for this video. ❤
Hi Berenice… thanks for watching and more so taking the time to share your experience. I am feeling better but not without my ups and downs still. I can only imagine the difficulties of your situation. My saving grace was insurance that allowed me to take extended time to heel and lucky enough to be in a country whereby my diagnosis is recognised. I’ve made significant changes to my life to be able to cope with the burnout for the better. Not without sacrifice of the things I thought I needed (or we are told we need). So I live very simple nowadays and I focus my attention on my art. It’s been a big adjustment but I never realised until this how true the saying ‘your health is your wealth!’ I put my health above all else. I do wish you all the best with your recovery. Hugs.
Good on you mate for sharing your story 👏
Cheers Chris. Much appreciated! 🙏👍
Well done mate 👍 one day you will tell your story of how you overcome what your going through now and it will become someone else's survival guide , your not alone
HI. Thanks for watching, commenting and your support. Greatly appreciated! I hope you are doing well in your situation. Many thanks :)
I'm sorry this happened to you... But I'm glad you made this video. I don't feel so alone in my experience. This is exactly what happened to me and for the exact same reasons- unresolved issues concerning PTSD that I thought I conquered from my childhood and into my adult life with choices made from my childhood experiences. It was like having to swim through the 20 years of pain, abandonment, and abuse all at once... This brought with it major depression and anxiety, which are things I'm still learning to balance and understand. When I finally figured out the general direction I had to take to work through all this, it took me years to get to a mentally comfortable mind frame... And one amazing man who's supported me the past year through any triggers that caused unnecessary, but very real fear and anxiety to take over my brain. I've learned a lot about the brain, both anatomically and psychologically. I still don't feel like the person I was before this all happened- the person I had wished I could be once again through this whole situation. I don't think we can ever go back to the person we once were.. I think this will always be with us, but through time and help with healing, I think we can all go from victim to survivor and find a new, wiser version of ourselves. We can find a sense of peace.
Hi Kristina, thank you for watching and moreso, for sharing your experience. Although difficult, I love reading your thoughtful reflection of your experience with such hope and optimism. I am of course sorry to hear you have been through this but so glad you have had support and understanding along the way. Hugs for your healthy recovery and becoming an even better you!
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I was doing ok until I got into therapy and realized why I had no memory of any of childhood and adulthood. I’m struggling with depression and anxiety and severe depression anxiety and memory loss ( started a new job and feel completely overwhelmed). One thing it’s doing is getting back to God and that’s good. Praying for all here
2 years I studied for my exam to get into med school. At first I had so much motivation because my mental health and motivation was so high. But as months went by I didnt realise my motivation would leave, I was running on empty for months before one night I had a major nervous breakdown because I couldn’t fall asleep and I thought I was wasting time and energy I could otherwise spend on revising. Since then I had more anxious breakdowns and I felt restless all the time. When I’m supposed to be relaxing on my own I felt completely depressed. This has never been me and it caught me completely off guard. Eventually I finished the exams with flying colours but a year after the exam I’m still stuck with constant unaccounted feelings of anxiety and depression. I constantly felt on edge, at least had one anxious breakdown per week, felt depressed for most days and I could seldom relax completely. I thought that with less work time my mental health would go accordingly but no. Anyway, I have just seen my psychiatrist a week ago and got diagnosed with anxiety disorder. I have never looked into the possibility of anxiety disorder simply because I don’t find my symptoms lying in line with any type of anxiety (GAD/ PSTD/ Social anxiety/phobia etc) mostly because my anxious feeling doesn’t really derive from thoughts, they simply creep up as they want to. But the psychiatrist opened the option for me to take meds to get better because I have been fighting anxiety for 1.5 years. I hope that with the meds my anxiety disorder would improve. I have sort of accepted slowly that this is a disease that will stick with me for life, like diabetes etc.
What I have learnt is that the anti burnout advertisement in this face paced, effectiveness/hard-work stressing world is very overlooked. Secondly, depression or anxiety after burnout is actually a form of mental illness that is seldom addressed in medical terms.
How are you doing now
I can 100% relate..........
How are u now
I’m currently experiencing server burnout with my work. I write for a living but I would write almost every single day of my life, and now I hit a point that even thinking of plot points and or characters gives me a headache and it sucks.
Not to mention that I became addicted to writing and fully knowing that if I do I’ll get a painful headache, how should I combat this.
Hi. Thanks for watching and sharing. Apologies late reply. For starters I’m not really able to give advice on your specific situation. I can only speak from my own experiences. But without doubt having a burnout meant to me the need for time to give my head and body space to heal. To let out more than i took in for awhile. And then it was reflection to see what was the root cause going on in my life. It’s often not just the activity of work. Addiction of course is another thing altogether. I too suffered addiction as you may see in my other videos. I would highly recommend you speak to a professional. I hope you have access to this type of help. Wishing you a healthy recovery.
There's no way to happiness....happiness is the way.
Sometimes we all get lost and we do actually need to rediscover happiness to carry on that journey of happiness being the way. Our modern lives often make us believe we are happy with so many distractions whereby the true happiness is often the simple things we forget or don’t make time for. That’s my experience anyways. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I'm in the US... My boss would let me off to recover bc we're therapists and he gets it... But I don't have the resources to support it and our short term disability insurance specifically doesn't cover burnout (and that's only up to 6 months... Government long term disability definitely doesn't allow it. They hardly even approve people with things like treatment resistant schzophrenia). I've definitely had that shell of myself thing going... I'm trying to figure out if I need to leave the field (which I really don't want to do) and how I might be able to heal while still working since we don't have the social programs to let me take time off to heal.
Thanks for watching and sharing!! Im sorry that you are going through this. I also hear the same from so many people in the US about the lack of support from health system and insurance recognising burnout. Its appalling a country can spend billions on defense, and yet still prioritises economy over the health of its people. I’m really sorry to hear you don’t have the support you need or deserve to take time to heal properly. The extra stress of worrying financially or otherwise doesn’t help. I do hope you find a solution that allows you to recover and continue in your field of work that you love. For me I couldn’t return to that corporate environment. But I also realised I didn’t love it. So I’ve had to make many changes to my lifestyle to accommodate living more simple. I wish you the very best. And appreciate you took the time to write.
@@AnxiousGregg thank you. I've honestly started considering trying to move to another country. I have a license that a lot of other countries have sponsored migration programs for. And I think a lot of my burnout is specifically from working within the US healthcare system. But I have friends and family here. It's not an easy choice.
I just found your video, thank you!! There is a lot you’ve mentioned that is similar to my situation!!
Hi Jeff, thanks for taking the time to watch the video and commenting. I'm sorry to hear you are going through the same. Simply put, it's tough. And although I still have days where I truly feel right back to this time, I just want to say I've learnt so much about myself these last couple of years that have really helped me move forward. Take your time. Listen to yourself. Seek some professional help to support you though this if possible. But most importantly, talk to people about it. You will be surprised just how many people can really understand you. I wish you all the very best. There is light at the end of the tunnel. best, Gregg
Hi Greg! How are you doing now? Are you able to do the things you were once able to do? I am going through this and have decided to quit my job and take a 2 month break. I hope it’s enough time for me. How long did it take you to recover? Did you fully recover? I noticed my anxiety is completely gone now that I am not working. All my body wants to do is sleep and watch TV lol. I wouldn’t say I’m depressed. It feels like my body just can’t take anymore. The sadness comes from the life I once had but I don’t care anymore. I just know I need to take my health seriously. Any tips and advice? I’d love to chat offline as well. I’d really appreciate it! Thanks 😄😁
Hi Samatha, I'm sorry for my late reply. I've been off the channel for sometime as I've been busy working on a new project. Firstly thanks for watching and sharing your experience. How is it going>? How are you feeling? Are you back to work? So many questions. But would love to hear an update from you. Unfortunately my burnout came about from years of issues and habits work related. I spent a nearly two years in solid therapy and still today see a therapist regularly. My only advice I can really give, is to give you body first all the time it needs to relax and recovery. As you say, take your health serious. Its easy to fall into the trap off thinking you are recovering yet not getting exercise, eating badly (or in some cases not as all) and spending lots of time in front of the TV. I really found spending time watching TV and reading news or heavy books really wasn't helping my mind. It was replacing the issues of burnout with all sorts of other nonsense. So I'm now super careful what I watch and read to allow my brain space to process and be creative. Art has been a huge help to me also. Stay intouch - let us know how you are! Happy holidays, and wishing you a healthy and safe New year.
Hi Gregg, just happened upon your video as my daughter sent me a video about burnout and I decided to search on it again. My story is a long one so won't go into any of it now. But, did want to tell you that prolonged stress deactivates the prefrontal cortex of the brain. This is also known as the CEO of our brain and helps us to structure activities. Brain scans show that the area will become inactive. Meditation can help to calm the brain. Anyway, the reason you were not able to fix yourself and awareness was lower was for this reason.
Thank you Joann. Really insightful and I look forward to researching this more! Good luck with your situation. I wish you a speedy recovery.
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This video is from Dr Daniel Amen. He owns the Amen Clinics. He specializes in healthy brains. I think you will love his videos as he talks about what was learned from doing over 100k brain scans.
I don’t know what the Job Burnout symptom is but I feel like I have that experience on my current job which is not doing my head good
Thank you for this video Gregg it lets me know I’m not alone in burnout. I suggest you do regular intermittent napping to get rid of stress for this is what I’ve done to get rid of stress. This comment is from a “Hindu” man whose name is Gautam Tolat.
Hi. Thank you so much for watching and for commenting with advice! I’m sorry to hear you also have struggled with burnout. I thinking napping is a great suggestion. For me I find sleep really important to give me time to process my racing brain! I wish you a healthy recovery! Thank you again 🙏🤗
@@AnxiousGregg Thank you. May I suggest you give into God too if you haven’t yet already. You can give into God by doing what God tells you to do. Giving into God will give you amazing results for recovery. I bear testimony to this. This comment is from a “Hindu” man whose name is Gautam Tolat.
im soooo burnt out from work and when i need to off my employers just think im lazy and want to replace me
Hey, Im really sorry to hear your situation. I can only image how difficult it is when your employers just don't understand. It may also be a sign as to why you are burnt out - working in that kind of environment where employees health is over looked. I really hope you find a solution for your situation. keep in touch and thanks for watching and sharing. Wishing you the best. 🤗
Hi Den, I hope you are fine now I am at the very same stage as you were, what would you say that helped you the most?Lots of love x
If anyone else here is going through similar and wants to chat a bit send me an email to janna4415@yahoo.co.uk
Can I ask…..Before your company doctor diagnosed you, did you too just lose all capacity for any kind of emotions or caring??
To be honest, it was such a blur and hit me so unexpectedly, I can't say for sure. But I attended a therapy called 'Emotional Regulation'. It really helped me these last years re-connect to my emotions, and recognise them as I was feeling them and better still, understand them.
For the last few weeks all of the sudden I have severe panic attacks thinkin in that moment that my organs are exploding from the inside any moment, light headed, arms and legs goin numb, my breathing is like totally off.. man I thought it to be the last time last week, untill yesterday, I was shopping for paint to redo my house, all of the sudden I get this shit right in the middle of the store for no apparent reason. Mann I hate this shit.. -_-
happened like 6 times this year now. But it seems that last few weeks it happens a lot more often all of the sudden
Do you feel like going crazy? This is like hell to me..
Hi, Thanks for watching. Apologies my late reply Ive been offline away from the channel for awhile now. Really sorry to hear you are experiencing such powerful attacks. I really understand. They are totally crippling and worrying which just adds to the problem. Have you been able to see anyone to talk to about this?
How is it going now? Have you been able to see anyone about this? Stay intouch.
Sorry to hear you are having a hard time also. I found panic attacks the worst. But with help I was able to find coping mechanisms to deal with them. Stay intouch.
Hey check out Katy Morton’s video - “overcoming childhood emotional neglect”. Maybe something will ring true for you too?
Hi I will and thank you!
What did u do to help urself get better?
Hey Josh. Thanks for watching and your comment. I got therapy. It took some months before I could be seen by anyone. But after that things really started to become clear what was going on in my life, how I was dealing with things. And learning that thruways I used Gondi things no longer served me well. So I began to learn new ways. I had CBT therapy. I also had emotional regulation therapy. And I had EMDR therapy for PTSD. You can see more in the other videos in my channel. But mostly I took time off work to recover. You can see more in my other videos.
@@AnxiousGregg thanks a lot!
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
She has depression
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I really have no idea what that middle emoji is??? 😂
You are very fortunate to have people in your life skilled enough to recognize this
Hi. Thanks for watching and commenting. I agree. I am very thankful that I am in a country that not only recognises the condition but had the support in place to assist. It’s not perfect of course. I was waiting for 9 months for help but there is something here. I hope you have some support you need.🙏🤗