{"id":152632,"date":"2024-06-10T22:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=152632"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:55:16","slug":"6-signs-youre-burnt-out-not-lazy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152632","title":{"rendered":"6 Signs You\u2019re Burnt Out, Not Lazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"6 Signs You\u2019re Burnt Out, Not Lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLuJ249WnkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhy does it seem like you\r\nspend most of your time in bed, lying down, and not doing much lately? Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of\r\nbehavior as mere laziness and nothing more? There’s a lot of overlap between laziness and burnout that can make it difficult to\r\ndifferentiate between the two. Burnout is a negative state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion, caused by excessive stress\r\nand the inability to cope with it. As of 2010, a survey reported that approximately 75% of adults\r\nin the United States alone have experienced symptoms of burnout, with over 40% of cases being more severe. Now, more than ever, it’s\r\nbecome imperative to educate and better understand\r\nthe nature of burnout. So with that said, here\r\nare six telltale signs that what you’re experiencing right now isn’t laziness, but burnout.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(upbeat music) Number one, you feel\r\ndisconnected from everything. Are you going through\r\nthe motions of every day as if on autopilot? Is there a persistent feeling of being detached from yourself? If you’re suffering from burnout, one of the things you\r\nmight be experiencing, but don’t quite realize or\r\nunderstand is depersonalization. People experiencing depersonalization, most commonly those\r\nstruggling with trauma, report feeling a strange\r\nsort of emotional numbness or emptiness as if they were watching life from outside of themselves. They don’t feel like themselves anymore. They don’t feel engaged by anything. And they constantly struggle\r\nwith the overwhelming sense of helplessness and inability\r\nto take back control of their lives. Number two, you used to be motivated. Laziness is a character trait. And character traits tend\r\nto remain stable over time. A lazy person doesn’t ever\r\nfeel like exerting effort or applying themselves to things. But if you used to be self-motivated and high achieving, often excelling in certain areas, and have only recently become exhausted, apathetic, and unmotivated, then it’s more likely that\r\nyou’re suffering from burnout and not laziness as\r\nmost people would think.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNumber three, you used to be passionate. A clear difference between\r\nsomeone who’s burnt out and someone lazy is that the former used to have things they\r\nwere passionate about, but may now be struggling to find interest or enjoyment in anymore. Whether it’s a talent, a sport, or just your academic, or professional performance in general, burnout can make it hard for you to do the things you once\r\nloved or felt passionate about. You might even come to hate or resent it because of how much\r\nyou overworked yourself and pushed yourself to\r\nthe brink because of it. Ouch. Number four, you’ve become\r\nmoody and irritable. Do you suddenly find yourself\r\nsnappy and easily irritated? Do you often feel emotionally\r\nout of control nowadays and don’t know why? Moodiness and irritability are common, but often overlooked signs of burnout. So if you start to have trouble\r\ncontrolling your emotions, especially when it never\r\nused to be a problem for you, this might be the reason why.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/6798582\/pexels-photo-6798582.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\nLazy people on the other hand\r\nare a stark contrast to this, because they’re often\r\nvery relaxed, laid back, placid, and unaffected by things. Number five, you’ve\r\nneglected your self-care. One of the most distressing warning signs that someone may be emotionally\r\nand physically burnt out is if you start neglecting yourself and socially withdraw from others. There are concerning\r\nchanges in your eating and\/or sleeping patterns. You stop making an effort to\r\ngroom yourself or look good, and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing because you’re so easily exhausted by even the simplest of tasks. The difference between\r\nbeing burnt out and laziness is starkly in the fact that\r\nyou weren’t always this way.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd number six, these\r\nchanges happened gradually. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, something you should know about burnout is that it develops in stages. So all of the points mentioned before; losing interest and motivation, especially in things we used to love, feeling detached from yourself and disconnected from\r\neverything around you, socially withdrawing, and\r\nneglecting your self-care, won’t just happen overnight. Studies show that there are five major stages of burnout, each with increasing degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase is the onset of stress, chronic stress, burnout, and habitual burnout. Many people begin to experience symptoms as early as the second phase, when there is still a\r\nmoderate amount of stress, but optimism, interest,\r\nmotivation, and performance, may already start declining. And by the time you reach\r\nthe fifth and final stage, burnout has already become\r\nso embedded in your life that the persistent mental\r\nand physical fatigue becomes more intense and harder to treat; making you more vulnerable to developing depression and anxiety. Spotting the signs of burnout early makes it all the\r\neasier for you to get help and recover from it. That’s why it’s so\r\nimportant to raise awareness about burnout instead of simply\r\ndismissing it as laziness like most people tend to do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo if you or anyone\r\nyou know maybe suffering from mental or emotional burnout, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a mental health care professional today and talk to them about it. 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There’s a lot of overlap between laziness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 Signs You\u2019re Burnt Out, Not Lazy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7,409],"tags":[59968,59976,59990,35340,59984,59972,953,957,2278,59980,59794,59796,39665,59798],"class_list":["post-152632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-getting-help","category-health","tag-burn-out","tag-burned-out","tag-burning-out","tag-burnout","tag-burnout-not-lazy","tag-burnt-out","tag-depression","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-not-lazy","tag-psych-2-go","tag-psych-to-go","tag-psych2go","tag-psychtogo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/htmlF_IMG_6667059b4f9c4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152701,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152632\/revisions\/152701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}