HEALTH & FITNESS

We often hear the word “burnout” and lump it in the same category as stress. Burnout and stress are actually two very different things. Let us explore the difference between the two, whether you are at risk and then what you can do about it.
Firstly, let’s look at stress. We are all familiar with this emotion. Most of us use this word everyday to describe some element of our working day or home environment. We are used to that subtle as well as overwhelming feeling of having too much to do and so little time.
The biggest difference between stress and burnout is that with stress, we can take ourselves out of a stressful situation after some time and come back renewed and rested. With stress, we can usually see an end in sight to a stressful situation and we work under stress knowing we will be fine at completion of this period. Stress can feel more physical than emotional.
Burnout, on the other hand, is where a person or situation can no longer be tolerated. It is a state of complete emotional and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged, unrelenting and intense stress. There is no give or ease up of stress.
If you are constantly trying to meet demands and feeling overwhelmed for a long period of time, your body will start responding by shutting down. You start losing interest or motivation in everyday activities,
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