What is Burnout?
Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It can occur when you experience long-term stress in your job, or when you have worked in a physically or emotionally draining role for a long time.
Common signs of burnout:
- Feeling tired or drained most of the time
- Feeling helpless, trapped and/or defeated
- Feeling detached/alone in the world
- Having a cynical/negative outlook
- Self-doubt
- Procrastinating and taking longer to get things done
- Feeling overwhelmed
(from Burnout - Mental Health UK (mentalhealth-uk.org))
Knowing how to recognise and prevent burnout should be
in everyone’s skillset, but especially musicians.
Tips
- Check in with yourself frequently. Where is your
physical and emotional energy going? Can you conserve it better? Are you taking
time to replenish it?
- Have a support network.
- COMMUNICATE. Never suffer in silence people will
understand and want to help.
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