How do you Heal Burnout ?

[BlurryBoi]

Burning-out (especially self-induced) is a tricky thing.

Sometime its like trying to untangle a giant ticking bomb made of interconnected knots of fragile conductor-wires (wich will blow up in your face as the knots get tighter & tighter until a wire breaks).

But you're trying to do so, stuck in rest-deprivation, with Homeostasis working against you, as the knot is tightening on its own (its a dynamic System with a survival drive).

 

So most ’solutions’ are actually not helpful because when they loosen a wire here and there, it does so by subtly tightening other wires somewhere else.

So out of 30 different ’solutions’ in apparence, there might be only a few that will really help your unique situation.

 

And the twisted thing is that most people start seriously trying to untangle this shit, only when they realise they are already knee-deep in this mess and exhausted.

So you might not have the luxury to try 10 more ‘solutions’, as you're running out of ressource.

 

And thats not even half of the complexity of self-induced Burnout. 

 

I think the systemic problem Burnout is a waaay bigger thing than we realise as individuals and as a society.

Because it can be sooo subtle, most of us dont realise we're burning-out until we're stuck in quicksand.

And this chronic-state is interconnected to 99% of our life, influencing more and more our (lack of) wellbeing, what we neglect and what we act on. 

Its basically an Exponential-DisEase.

 

So yes, successful PREVENTION is key and extremely valuable.

But still, there's an even bigger need for powerful real-Solutions to self-induced burnout. 

[BlurryBoi]

Understanding How to solve cancerous/maladaptive Systems (system-thinking) is a part of the solution as a whole

 

(but of course if you're burnt out you just cant get yourself to learn this...)

Edited August 5, 2023 by BlurryBoi

[BlurryBoi]

2 years ago, Leo made a blog video about balancing work & rest, that can help on this topic quite a bit.

Here's the link and a summary 

Edited August 5, 2023 by BlurryBoi

[BlurryBoi]

Btw, this might go better in the "Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues" subforum