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Re: Burnout

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

slips wrote: post #29
didgeoridoo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you actually feel fine, then of course therapy isn’t likely to do much for you. The idea is if you’re feeling terrible enough to evaluate yourself, but it turns out you likely aren’t suffering from burnout, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look into therapy. Often people think they are suffering from burnout, but it turns out they actually have underlying trauma, anxiety, depression, etc. unrelated to work stress.

Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. There's a lot of tricky ground to navigate as a person and you don't have to be experiencing trauma to get help.

> Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able.

I feel like this is just a weaponized meme developed for the purpose of marketing.

Re: Burnout

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Post by ezekg »

Burnout fucking sucks. I thought I went through it once in the past (and maybe I did), but when compared to how I feel now it was nowhere near as bad. I recently tried a few things: 1) nootropic supplements, which have helped a bit to an extent; and 2) take a week long tech-free vacation to the mountains, but when I came back my state didn't really change.

I think my burnout is due to feeling utterly unchallenged at work. The work I've been doing feels way below my pay grade. I'm also attempting to grow my own SaaS business and growth is very slow (3 years in, at $4k MRR), which makes that "light at the end of the tunnel" of going full-time on my business seem unreachable at times. I also have a 5 month old, so I'd also factor that into the lower-bound of my stress level (but I do feel like she helps me slog through hard days more than anything).

I'm starting to be more open about my mental health with family/friends, and I feel like I'm in a rut and not sure how to get out of it. I wish I could take a sabbatical.

Re: Burnout

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Post by slips »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #71
slips wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. There's a lot of tricky ground to navigate as a person and you don't have to be experiencing trauma to get help.

> Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. I feel like this is just a weaponized meme developed for the purpose of marketing.

Marketing what? Mental health? Everything isn't some shill post or /r9k/ nonsense. People do speak authentically.

Re: Burnout

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

slips wrote: post #73
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. I feel like this is just a weaponized meme developed for the purpose of marketing.

Marketing what? Mental health? Everything isn't some shill post or /r9k/ nonsense. People do speak authentically.

Therapy. Therapy is a service, and one that in my experience is of dubious value. It is difficult to look at a statement that is essentially "pay for something you don't need" and not think of it as marketing.
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