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Burnout

  • 20-05-2009 5:35am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10


    Has anybody here experienced burn-out before and if so how did you get through it?

    I'm in my early 30s and seem to have lost interest in pretty much everything including work and family (don't have kids). I've lost all my drive, my confidence and even my short-term memory (seriously!!), I just don't care about anything.

    I guess for the last 10 years or so I've been pushing very hard career wise and have had quite a lot of personal problems and supported people very close to me through some serious ones themselves. The thing is now I really feel like I've hit a brick wall, I feel like my life is kinda crap but but don't really have the interest to change it and it makes me sad because I used to be so ambitious with real dreams about the future but now I just feel like I'm on auto-pilot. I know burn-out is quite common and I'd just be interested to know how other people have gotten through it.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭ogriofa


    Hiya, I'm gonna go for the obvious one - go on a big fat holiday.

    Not a weekender, or a week away, go for a month. It will take time to really get everything out of your head.

    Can you get the time off? Prices are way down at the mo, you'd get a great deal from somewhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    H Op,

    I have had this happen for me too, but now looking back i feel that i was using situations to avoid having to be with my true self, all the ambition and drive that i had came from wanting, more, better and best, it was not grounded in me, so then when i burnt myself out i was faced with myself which was what i had been avoiding for years. This is the challenge for us all really, to really listen to what it is you want in life and not to 'have to' feel you need to have more to be more.

    I have found that at times like these it is more about re engaging with yourself and an opportunity to get to know yourself again, instead of looking at your life being in a negative place see it as being in a new positive place with opportunity for change,

    I have just simplified my life down to committing to one thing at a time and giving it 100% it has made my life flow so much easier and i have a better relationship with myself.

    Sounds like your doing a bit of soul searching, what would be your perfect life right now? If you can start building a better picture you can then manifest it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    In similar boat.
    Just back from holiday - was great while away - but same old crap - family/work keep pulling me down too.

    Thinking to break this rut I need to change something.
    So - either new job / reduce contact with family / both.

    Wish me luck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ok_one_more_so


    I think to be honest I probably have been burying myself in my work so I don't have to face other problems in my life but that just isn't working any more.

    I have thought about the whole holiday thing but I reckon I'll just slip back into my old ways. I could try changing jobs but I reckon I'd just be moving the problem along. At this stage would just love to not feel so absolutely worn out (can really understand where the phrase "burnout" comes from!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭tonsiltickler


    Take maybe a year sebatical from work and go travelling, all the routine all the bulls**t will all be gone quicker than you could imagine, working your whole life is for dummies


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