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Originally Posted by amandalouise
your title question is burn out an emotion answer yes.
burnout is a special kind of physical and emotional exhaustion, usually the term is associated with professionals / long term careers persons. examples teachers, physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, nurses... people who have to take on helping others solve their mental and physical health problems while at the same time keeping their own issues bottled up or under wraps so that their own issues dont affect their clients.
its extremely draining physically and mentally on people in long term careers to have to set their own lives separate from their clients in order to treat their clients mental and physical health issues or teach or what ever the profession that requires one to hold their own lives separate from the client.
symptoms of burn out are similar but different at the same time as depression -
fatigue (physical and mental) / lack of energy,
moody, rage, anxiety,
sleep deprived,
job expectation stress and anxiety,
migraines/ headaches
ulcers/ stomach aches
and more
all these mental and physical health issues that a career person dealing with the public has to keep from their clients adds up and one day the career person calls in to work because just trying to get out of bed is physically and mentally close to impossible. they are just drained of all their energy, and will to go out there and help others that they are ready to throw in the towel.
if the burnout isnt treated it can lead to major health problems like stroke, diabetes, alcohol, drugs and suicide.
most professions understand about burn out and require the career person to have their own mental and physical health treatment providers.
example mental health therapists in the USA are usually required to have their own mental health treatment providers and attend to their own therapy and physical health treatment plans, and the first few years to be under close supervision of a job supervisor and the state board to ensure the treatment provider has a support network they can depend upon to help guide them with their job, job stress and so forth.
If you feel you are going through "burnout" please contact your treatment providers, they can help you get into specialized treatment plans for this very special kind of problem.
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Thank you. Definitely a big part of my burn out is due to client’s problems that I deal with. I hear so many people cry in emotional pain, constantly it feels, or hear their fits of anger and disappointment. situations that trigger me. I had several difficult conversations in a row at work when I started this post, and then several strange frightening situations going from work to my car in the same week (run ins with addicts, and people in crisis). I hid from one guy, another guy ran after me. 4 run ins total just in the one minute it takes to walk to my car.
At work, I had an extended conversation with someone in what seemed like psychosis, or bi polar type meltdown and then a few days later they critically injured themselves, I found out. I’m not trained for that type of thing, it’s not the direct nature of my job. my husband has bipolar, and went through scary times not so long ago..so yeah very triggering. I literally shook hearing that the person was injured, and I had to sit on my husband’s lap like a baby during lunch that day, while he gave me a hug.
There’s just a lot. I am empathetic, so it’s not easy for me. I blame myself a lot, so the way I am, and the way things are, cause me to feel badly a lot.
I really do need a therapist. I also don’t understand what my big deal is though. I feel like I’m perceiving a problem that isn’t there? I don’t know what that means.