“I was working a lot of night shifts. I couldn’t sleep during the day – my mind would be absolutely racing,” says Lizzie, a nurse in Greater Manchester. “I started to feel unwell. I started to get migraines.
“I would say it probably took another maybe six months before I recognised it as burnout.”
Why are so many of us struggling with burnout and how can we deal with it?
Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology at the University of Manchester, tells Hannah Moore why recessions and pandemics increase the likelihood of the phenomenon, and why companies should take it seriously.
Amelia Nagoski, author of Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, explains what individuals can do to prevent burnout or recover from it.
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