Anxiety Recovery and "Burnout" (Episode 049)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
BURNOUT!
Running out of gas and being emotionally, physically, and/or mentally drained can happen to any human. This week on Disordered Drew and Josh explore how an anxious mind can twist and distort the concept of burnout. In many ways, the fear of burning out, and the catastrophic interpretation of what that might mean, can be worse than burnout itself!
The guys explore different signs of burnout, how burnout comes in different shapes and sizes depending on context, and how obsession with and fear of burnout can mimic fear of depression or fear of the lack of enough or proper sleep.
Finally, Josh and Drew share some tips for avoiding burnout and taking care of oneself. As always, there are a couple of great questions and "Did It Anyways" from the community in this episode, so tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Josh and Drew, my name's Louise, and I'm from Suffolk, England, and I'm happy for you to use my name. |
| 0:06.1 | I have a question around burnout. |
| 0:10.0 | Josh, I remembered you mentioned previously that you were or are. |
| 0:14.8 | Apologies, I can't remember the current context, that you were a carer for somebody. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm in a very similar situation myself and I'm sure |
| 0:22.8 | many of your listeners are as well and we all know it's very emotionally draining and it's very |
| 0:29.0 | stressful and often our needs come secondary to the other person. My question is or request for |
| 0:36.9 | advice I suppose. How can we make sure we're not entering |
| 0:41.6 | that territory of burnout without then inwardly focusing constantly too much? I find that at the moment, |
| 0:52.5 | when my stress levels are really high, I'm kind of |
| 0:56.2 | inwardly focusing more and more going, you're not coping, you need to make sure you're coping |
| 1:01.9 | looking after yourself, and then I find that I'm doing that too much. But then I find I'm in a |
| 1:07.1 | situation of where I'm then not maybe putting my own needs first. So any tips on how to |
| 1:13.4 | find that balance? And that would be wonderful. All right. Thank you very much. Bye. |
| 1:19.3 | And welcome to Disordered. This is episode 49. Today we're going to talk about burnout. I am |
| 1:24.2 | Drew Lin Salata, a therapist in training in New York State in the US of A specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders, an author, a podcast or an educator in the anxiety disorder community, and a former sufferer of anxiety and depression for many years of my life, and one of the co-hosts of Disordered. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, on social media, an author of the upcoming book, How Does I Make |
| 1:45.5 | You Feel, a podcaster, a content creator, a therapist, a six-foot-two man with poor posture |
| 1:55.0 | issues, previous sufferer of anxiety. I think my blood type's A. |
| 2:20.7 | You get the point. Whose favorite band? Oh, there's too many. Don't put me on the spot like that. There's too many. Probably Fleetwood Mac if you had to. Well, I wasn't expecting that. Okay, cool. We'll talk about that one other day. We could have stopped at your blood type. That's fine. Anyway, Today we're going to talk about burnout and Josh's posture issues. |
| 2:20.7 | But, uh, We could have stopped at your blood type. That's fine. Anyway, today we're going to talk about burnout and Josh's posture issues. |
| 2:29.1 | But this was a great question to start because I think burnout is a real thing for sure. It contributes in our community in a big way. |
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