I've noticed (with the help of family members and my SO) that I've become very negative, cynical and drained lately. Reading about burnout, I find all of the symptoms to be true for myself....
While we may tell ourselves that This Is Fine, living in the hurricane of a legislative reign of terror has real, physical consequences on our bodies--things we need to take concrete action to physically heal, or they'll eat away at us. This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're talking about the stress response cycle, and the things you need to do to keep your body healthy so we can do more than fight--we can win.
Bon j'organise les grosses dates des forums de la rentrée sur mon espace jusqu'à début octobre, rdv chez le médecin déjà pris pour anticiper, sur ma souffrance au travail en lui demandant lettre pour psychiatre spécialisé anxiété troubles du sommeil et Burn out, et médecine du travail dans la foulée.
Si tu ne veux pas la guerre, prepares la guerre.
Je pense commencer avec 3 semaines d'arrêt pour une première alerte ...
Dans ma longue carrière de #BurnOut de pleine conscience, j'ai connu un chef qui non content de couler la boîte, le faisait en pratiquant un harcèlement moral et sexuel forcené, notamment sur ma personne.
Une chose en emmenant une autre, je me suis retrouvée à googler son nom.
IL VIENT DE PRENDRE HUIT MOIS AVEC SURSIS! 🥳 🥳 🥳
New blog post on user support frustration, its causes, and how we could build the "infrastructure of equanimity" in #opensource, including ideas for potential cross-project tools & practices.
Shout-outs to @davidism, Heidi Waterhouse, @offby1, @jacob, Nicole Harris, @bernard, + @georgia for work & conversations that I built on in this piece.
Coming to the end of my leave and I am feeling the dreads through my body. 😭 The anxiety dreads. How can I transfer the vacation feels into my working life?😬 #Burnout vs #SlowLiving
Some typical responses to different levels of #stress in this infographic that lists criteria for different areas on the "stress continuum". I can use this to remind myself that I won't always feel as I feel now (for better and worse).
Thriving: “I got this.”
Surviving: “Something isn’t right.”
Struggling: “I can’t keep this up.”
In Crisis: “I can’t survive this.”
Thoughts that run through my head almost every day:
Morning: Oof, okay, guess I'm awake. We're all going to die some day, but I'll deal with that after some coffee.
11 am: Hey, I'm doing pretty good! Depression and ADHD are okay, I'm a woman just living my life, things aren't so bad!
2 pm: We must burn down all the corporations to the ground and seize the means of production. Or just blow things up. Blarghity blargh blargh grumble tired....
5 pm: Hey, there's nice and fun things I enjoy doing in life, cool! Let's do some of those things.
8:30 pm: Life is pointless. I should give up on everything and walk into the desert so I never again bother anyone and just stop existing.
Next morning: Oof, okay, guess I'm awake and I'll deal with things after coffee...
This day in 2021 was the first day of my 3-month #burnout sabbatical.
I had been increasingly overworked for 2-3 years at this point, was way too stressed all the time, and was struggling so fukken hard. Still, I kept pushing through, but I felt like I was a week away from going Hindenburg 1937, but then my good friend and co-founder said, "Buddy, you're toast. Take a few months off, just get better.” My staff had noticed, he had noticed, and they acted.
Social media platforms depend on CONSTANT churn, ratcheting the producers actually making the content.
We've seen a BUNCH of smaller creators walk away over the last couple years. Podcasts are struggling to monetize. And even larger (and more profitable) channels are now talking more about the burn out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn10AWGF6OU
Seeing the trends at play from executives at companies like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit, we can be confident that this creator burnout trend will likely continue.
This will also probably contribute to the problem of churning content, as the platforms increasingly turn to disposable short form videos and algorithmically manipulating the feeds of viewers.
Your favorite creators and podcasters need your help and support.
I was back at my first job at iRobot. Some manager I currently follow on linked in last night had re-hired me.
I was excited to just make money again.
Howerver, I didn’t go to work on my second day because of burnout/depression.
I didn’t go to work on my third day because of the anxiety caused by not letting my employer know what was going on.
On the 4th day I went to work. They mocked my apology when I finally talked to them. While I was gone, manager and his friend coworker stormed the corporate housing I was staying at and put all my stuff on the street. They kicked me out and kept mocking me…
OK, the burnout has me. Started a couple days ago. I’m not 100% what triggered it, but I think it may have been assisted by the “therapy” experience last Friday. Regardless, I can feel a discord between my brain and body. I’m up today and feel rested but my brain is stuck.
So switching gears to #quiet today. Staying home. Light work duty. Maybe a nap. Let’s see if we can ease ourselves into a #reset. If I had a #hottub, I’d be in it now.
The phrase "burnt out former gifted kid" has always given me the ick, but there are unique challenges/issues/traumas related to that experience that tend to come up in #autistic discussions and I've never encountered a good description.
Proposal for a slightly less icky alternative:
✨ burnt out former high achiever ✨
Bon c'est décidé, je ne retournerai pas à mon taf.
Mon psychiatre m'a proposé d'y retourner en mi temps thérapeutique, mais les nuits d'insomnie portant conseil, je ne vais pas prendre cette demi solution, ce rab de malaise, ce sera donc l'inaptitude (à voir avec le medecin), indemnités et hop de nouveaux horizons.
Is there any point me contacting my GP about my #burnout? Can they actually do anything at all?
Asking cos I just went to make dinner. Found stuff I had to do first and had as meltdown in the kitchen, after which I had to retreat upstairs again to recover, without the food or drink I went down for. And now I'm stressed because I put stir fry in my app and I can't go make stir fry now so that's wrong, and I know I can change it but it's not that simple.
Personally, I have nothing against the emergence of new #programming languages. This is cool:
the industry does not stand still;
competition allows existing languages to develop and borrow features from new ones;
developers have the opportunity to learn new things while avoiding #burnout;
there is a choice for beginners;
there is a choice for specific tasks.
But why do most people dislike the :clang: #clang so much? But it remains the fastest among high-level languages. Who benefits from C being suppressed and attempts being made to replace him? I think there is only one answer - companies. Not developers. Developers are already reproducing the opinion imposed on them by the market. Under the #influence of hype and the opinions of others, they form the idea that C is a useless language. And most importantly, oh my god, he's unsafe. Memory usage. But you as a #programmer are (and must be) responsible for the #code you write, not a language. And the one way not to do bugs - not doing them.
Personally, I also like the :hare_lang: #harelang. Its performance is comparable to C, but its syntax and elegance are more modern.
And in general, I’m not against new languages, it’s a matter of taste. But when you learn a language, write in it for a while, and then realize that you are burning out 10 times faster than before, you realize the cost of memory safety.
Bon c'est décidé, je ne retournerai pas à mon taf (30 ans d'ancienneté).
Mon psychiatre m'a proposé d'y retourner en mi temps thérapeutique, mais les nuits d'insomnie portant conseil, je ne vais pas prendre cette demi solution, ce rab de malaise, ce sera donc l'inaptitude (à voir avec le medecin), indemnités et hop de nouveaux horizons (chômage, taf ou formation ...)
Has anyone managed to recover from а serious burnout without taking a sabbatical? How?
I've noticed (with the help of family members and my SO) that I've become very negative, cynical and drained lately. Reading about burnout, I find all of the symptoms to be true for myself....