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5 Overlooked Signs You’re Heading for Burnout
You won’t find these on the mental health checklists.
Your stress levels are rising.
For a while you’ve been feeling like a pot on the boil. Simmering, bubbling, not knowing how to turn down the heat — wondering when it’s all going to spill over the edge.
No need to panic. Humans are built to take a fair load. Stress can be good too — it can motivate us achieve our best work (or even more than we thought we could). And, if we never feel any heat, it may be a sign we’re not fully testing ourselves and our capabilities.
The trouble is it’s easy to know when we’re feeling under the pump — but hard to gauge the level of it. It’s particularly hard to pick the exact moment when too much has become Too Much.
What to do?
Am I in the Red Light Zone?
“Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
When stress levels boil over, it can be a mission to get them back in the pot. And that can have smack-in-the-face implications for your mental health, work, relationships and quality of life.
