And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 199. It's titled Burnout. And if you're ready,

we'll start the show. Hello, people. How you been feeling lately? Bit good, bit rubbish,

a little bit of both. That's okay. Obviously we want to be in a happy

place more often, but it's not, it's not really realistic, is it? To be always happy. People think I am.

I put on a, on a happy face everywhere I go to a, to a degree. No one wants to see a miserable

therapist, but by God they do exist. They really do. You might be one. If you've ever come to any psychotherapy

conferences, you'd have soon seen that physicians don't always heal themselves, as the old phrase goes.

And it might do people good to realize that everybody's human, that everybody has emotions,

and even therapists can be unhappy, stressed, stretched and overworked.

You know, marriage guidance counselors still get divorced, you know?

No one's immune to these sorts of things. Not even the happy

chappy on your podcast on a Monday morning or a Wednesday afternoon or whatever it is you're

listening to this. I feel low sometimes, not depressed as such. I'm lucky in that respect.

And a lot of it is luck, you know, genetics and therapy. I guess that's not so lucky, you know, seeing a therapy.

I do see a therapist. I think everybody should. But I think I am lucky. But I know I could let

in depression if I wasn't aware that it was knocking on the door, not clinical depression,

just sort of reactive stuff. But just because it knocks on the door, I'm in a fortunate enough

position to mean I have the ability to not answer it.

And if I did by accident, that sort of really low mood sneaks in, I can tell.

And I feel it.

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