There is a high prevalence of burnout among workers. Two-thirds of full-time workers experience some burnout in their careers. In 2021, 79 percent of U.S. adult workers experienced work-related stress.
Burnout can lead to significant emotional and physical problems. Depending on your job, it can lead to safety issues or poor job performance. So, it is important to know what burnout looks like and how it feels.
You are experiencing an unhelpful level of stress. Distress is what we call it. It is a stress that can be so overwhelming that your performance in the anxiety-producing situation doesn’t go well.
In his book, When the Body Says No, Dr. Gabor Mate identifies three components of the experience of stress. Understanding these components can help you respond in a more meaningful way to the presence of stress in your life.
The truth is you can have so many possessions, so much stuff that it can interfere with the quality of your life. Clutter can create tension and stress. It can heighten the tension and stress you are already feeling.
Stress can have a significant impact on the amount of sleep you are able to get. When your body gets stuck in the fight-flight-freeze syndrome that is part of stress, it can make it harder to relax and allow sleep to happen.
How does mindfulness play a role in stress reduction? So often, we respond to stress by trying to identify its source and then address that source by controlling or avoiding the stressors we identified.