Stressed, Depressed, or Burned Out? The Warning Signs You Shouldn't Ignore
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Personal account of chronic stress, two burnouts and 15 years of clinical depression lists concrete warning signs—insomnia, migraines, memory lapses, weight change, social withdrawal and substance use—and measurable events: half a year off work for the first burnout, COVID-triggered collapse for the second, and trying four weeks per medication with an ER visit after severe side effects before a third medication started working last week. Practical fixes include reducing workload, delegating, time blocking, disconnecting, therapy and the breathing hack of breath counting 4 in 4 out then long slow exhale.
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- 0:00Start
- 5:47What is stress?
- 6:17Why do you get stressed?
- 8:38Is stress always bad for you?
- 10:24Are you feeling distress or eustress?
- 12:26What happens when you get stressed?
- 13:30Stress triggers your fight-or-flight response
- 15:05What are the warning signs of stress?
- 19:50How do you manage stress?
- 20:47How do you prevent or treat stress?
- 28:23What is burnout?
- 29:35Why do you burn out?
- 32:11How is stress and burnout different?
- 33:18What are the warning signs of burnout?
- 34:07How do you prevent burnout?
- 36:27How do you recover from burnout?
- 44:03What is depression?
- 46:04How is burnout and depression different?
- 47:42How do you treat depression?
