ANXIETY & BURNOUT BLOG

The panic attack itself lasted a few minutes. The fear that it might happen again has lasted weeks. You've started scanning every room for the nearest exit. You've stopped going back to wherever it happened the first time. You check your heart rate without meaning to. A part of you is on watch now, all the time, waiting to see if today is the day it happens again. If this is where you are, I want to say something clearly: the fear afterwards is not an overreaction, and it isn

There's a sentence I hear in some form most weeks, usually shared in a confused way - I've slept eight hours, but I still feel exhausted - it just doesn't make sense. That was Anna, not her real name, for confidentiality. She'd started tracking her sleep on her watch because she couldn't work out what was wrong with her: seven and a half hours most nights, sometimes eight. The graph looked fine, but she wasn't feeling herself at all. She was waking up feeling flat, low energy

Burnout rarely looks like collapse. Here's what it actually feels like from the inside, what the research says, and why pushing harder is the very thing keeping your system from recovering.