You’re Not Lazy. Or Failing. You’re in Burnout’s Perfect Storm
Lazy people don’t come to therapy. Here’s who do.
Burnout is everywhere.
Not the screeching-to-a-halt brand of burnout. Not the kind where you wake up one day unable to get up, unable to function.
It’s more like a slow burn condition, where you feel weary, then exhausted, increasingly lethargic and your brain turns to mud.
Your thoughts — once crisp and incisive — take longer to surface and, when they do, they’re soft around the edges. The negativity that has nibbled at you for a while begins to nip — then bite. Then leave teeth marks.
You can still get out of bed (at least on the days you have to) but your mind and body protest. You just want to draw up the covers; you long for the overwhelm, the stress, the never-ending responsibility, to go away.
Your productivity dips. You procrastinate. You become last-minute with everything. Your motivation has left the building. You feel frustrated, guilty and like you’re failing on all fronts.
The word you level at yourself is LAZY. Or FAILING.
When you’re not. You’re this.
