7 signs of emotional burnout

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     In today’s blog we’ll be discussing the seven signs you’re emotionally burnt-out. Ever emotionally burnt-out ever since the term was first coined by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberg back in the 1970 burnout has been a popular topic of interest from many scholars in the field of psychology.

     Based on a study or research by later and another emotional burnout is defined as “a negative psychological state that may manifest physical behavioral and cognitive symptoms that impair our normal functioning and cause severe distress”.

      No matter what you do? Or how you do it? Stress is an inevitable part of life. Everyone or every person has to deal with it from time to time. However when stress gets out of hand and becomes too much for you to cope with.

     It will put your mental health at risk. Here are seven signs that can help you tell. If you’re emotionally you burnt out

1) You’re chronically fatigued: 

         there’s a difference between being tired and fatigued. Both are responses to stress. But tiredness goes away with the right amount of rest and recuperation. While fatigue is more enduring. When you’re emotionally burnt-out. It can feel like no amount of food, sleep or relaxation can make you feel better. You’re can make you feel better. You’re exhausted all the time.

2) You’re not taking care of yourself: 

         Are there any concerning changes in your eating and sleeping patterns. These changes are often the first and most prominent signs of emotional burnout. When you stop eating or sleeping right it negatively impacts both your physical and mental health. According to researchers Pahlavi and Herman. People who feel emotionally exhausted often experience loss of appetite and lack of restful in severe cases. Some people even feel so drained that they stop showering exercising brushing their teeth and dressing presentably altogether.  Before we jump to the next point. We also want to let you know that we previously released a blog on types of highly sensitive people. If you haven’t gotten a chance to read. It does check it out later basically highly sensitive people are also more likely to get emotionally burned out. So if you find yourself easily being drained emotionally then you might be in highly sensitive people.

3) Your performance is declining: 

         have you noticed the quality of your work goes down lately? Are you less productive at what you do try, comparing your performance from a few months or a year ago to how it is? Today and see if there’s a significant difference. Emotional burnout is a gradual process that takes place over an extended period of time, so it can be difficult to pinpoint when exactly your performance started to worsen looking at it from a long-term perspective can help you figure out. Whether or not you’ve just hit a temporary rough patch or if you’re already suffering emotional exhaustion.

4) You’re emotionally volatile: 

          do you often throw temper tantrums at the slightest provocation? When you neglect your mental health and feel to satisfy your emotional needs. It’s harder for your mind to function as well as it used to this may manifest as difficulty controlling and maintaining your emotions. If you’re suffering from emotional exhaustion your feelings are likely all over the place. You become more sensitive and irritable, frustration, pessimism guilt, and anger are common. As well as feelings of emptiness and dread all of these are telltale signs. That your mind is already crying for help.

5) You feel down most of the time: 

         according to a study by Bianchi and others in 2015. lack of energy and motivation is to be expected in the early stages of burnout. But symptoms of anxiety and depression may develop over time if the problem is left untreated. If you’re feeling down more than not it’s time for you to start taking better care of yourself mentally and emotionally.

6) Your social life is going downhill: 

          Being emotionally burned-out may cause you to have no energy or desire to spend time with your loved ones. You tend to push away your friends and family without meaning to do. You find yourself neglecting your social roles and duties as a sibling partner or friend do you experience more interpersonal conflicts emotional is a very ugly and painful experience. That often affects not just our mental health but our social functioning as well. In fact, studies have shown that social withdrawal and isolation are one of the worst consequences of poor mental health causing a lot of people to suffer alone in silence.

7) You feel hopeless: 

          Emotional burnout usually gives way to feelings of despair emptiness and detachment. You spend all of your time and energy mulling over all the things. You need to do and end up leaving none of it for yourself and your well-being. You start to feel unfulfilled by things that used to give your life meaning and you find it hard to feel any sort of pleasure at all anymore because you fear that nothing you do will matter in the end. You don’t see the point of it all anymore, so you give up in a culture that values achievement success and productivity. It’s easy to lose yourself in your work or your school a lot of us have been brought up to believe that we must always push ourselves to excel and do our very best all the time. However, it’s important to know when to draw the line and find the time to care for ourselves and put our emotional needs. First emotional burnout is an easy trap to fall into but difficult to climb out fortunately though it doesn’t just happen overnight. Self-awareness is key once you’ve recognized the signs of the emotional brand out try to find out what could be the root cause of it do all the assigned some familiar- how many signs do you relate to what do you think might be the cause of it and what do you plan to do next let us know in the comments below share this with someone you think might benefit from these as well. Don’t forget to share and follow us to know more useful information or content about psychology content and as always thanks for reading the blog:)