Dealing with burnout during the pandemic
Live MintAs a therapist, I have never worked with so many people who are on the brink of a burnout, feeling exhausted, disillusioned, even reconsidering their career choices, as I have seen over the last one year. A consistent comment over the last two months is, “When I look back at last year, it feels like the work we would have possibly done in a couple of years was all squeezed into the last 12 months.” Maybe the narrative of pandemic productivity did work initially. This initial need to perform, and prove to ourselves that even amidst a pandemic we were capable of achieving our work targets, led to a blurring of work-home boundaries, and a cycle where we began to feel “wired and tired”. Most people feel that by the time it’s Sunday evening and they begin to get into a state of rest, the reality of a heavy work week looming hits them. The watercooler conversations and team lunches provided a sort of cushioning when it came to dealing with the work stress, allowing people to disconnect and find small windows of human connection.
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