Mental Health and Lifestyle

Here’s How to Prevent Burnouts with Three Practical Approaches.

I explain why burnouts matter and what we can do to deal with and prevent them based on ideas from my three decades of experience.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA
Published in
10 min readMay 14, 2022

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The Importance of a Methodical Approach to Dealing With and Preventing Burnouts

Life is not a rosy garden. It constantly throws us challenges. Millions of people suffer from burnout for various reasons.

When our health is compromised, life loses its meaning. Using ideas from my three-decade of experiencing chronic stress, I offer three practical ways to prevent burnout.

Even though I gratefully was born as a healthy child in reasonably good conditions, accumulated stress caused by many factors put me in a biologically and psychologically disadvantaged position in my mid-years.

In my case, chronic stress triggered numerous health conditions affecting my well-being, creativity, and productivity. Even though some challenges were beyond my control, most of them were within my responsibility areas.

This essay is about burnout in life. As burnout is a broad topic, we first must…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com