Dr. Katie Elizabeth Green

They've carved out a professional identity in most cases that demonstrates that they're capable, that they're able, that they can take the pressure.

And therefore, often managers and leaders will overload those individuals who have shown themselves to be

capable ones without realizing that actually everybody has a limit, everybody has a point at which stress levels can accumulate and push them into a period of burnout.

So yes, we often see it in people will manage and cope and push on for many, many years and demonstrate that they're extremely capable

they can hit very high performance targets and then something will happen and that person will start to crash.

And it can be something quite small.

Maybe they're working on a different project or maybe they're working with a different individual and suddenly that person's levels of accumulated stress

reach a point where their body is no longer able to push on and we see this burnout appearing.

So yeah, it can take many years for somebody to get to a point where burnout is their reality.

So I think it's about firstly recognizing some of those early warning signs in yourself.

So maybe you're feeling more fatigued.

Maybe you've got higher levels of anxiety than you felt before.

Maybe you're experiencing less joy in your working life or you're noticing that you are less present around your family.

You know, you're snappier, you're more irritable.

Those are some of the early warning signs that the body is starting to accumulate.

a high level of stress and then from there really if people are at a point where they're starting to feel very cynical about their work cynical about their work environment kind of wondering you know what's the point of all of this those are some really key indicators of burnout and I'm not a medical professional but I would encourage anybody who's experiencing those kind of

symptoms to to go and see a medical professional and get a get a formal diagnosis and i think we are seeing more and more medical professionals recognizing burnout as a legitimate issue now which is which is really good and on the manager side is more recognition of their employees that may be dealing with stress a good tip for this

Yeah, absolutely.

So managers really need to have a good grasp on the sort of general wellbeing within their team and understanding of who's showing signs of higher levels of stress than normal.

And I think it's difficult for managers often because they are, you know, sometimes line managers are managing consistently.