The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Ten ways to treat burnout and how to avoid it altogether.

A few weeks ago, it was all over the headlines that what we typically call burnout just might be depression. Beyond the vagueness such wording introduced, another way to push antidepressants,

the actual research further affirms burnout as a genuine psychological and physical experience.

This second study confirms that those who suffer from job burnout also experience the onset of key depression symptoms.

Something of little surprise to anyone who's ever been through it.

Yet, as an earlier study suggests, burnout is its own animal. Symptoms are likely linked to

atypical depression, which behaves differently and can more readily suggest situational origins.

It's something I've been saying for years. Certain elements of the modern, unmitigated experience

promotes neurosis more than we'd like to admit.

Burnout is one common example.

Most people have experienced brief phases of it.

Others have unfortunately found themselves in the long-term grip of it.

Burnout is that bottomed-out sensation of emotional and often bodily exhaustion.

We feel wholly knocked down by the unrelenting demands or psychological disorientation of our circumstances.

Eventually, we feel we just can't get up again.

The result can be a hollowed-out, hopeless, automaton feeling. Some people cry at random. Others shut down.

We might still be moving through our duties at home or work, but it's often with a numbness that

hovers above a perpetual anxiety or emptiness. Still, it's important to understand that we're not

talking about just a psychological phenomenon here. Burnout, while it's the to understand that we're not talking about just a psychological phenomenon

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