What is burnout?

Burnout is when you feel super tired and don’t want to do anything because you’ve been doing something for too long.

Imagine your favorite toy that you play with every day, it's a robot that you wind up and watch dance. At first, it’s fun, and you love watching it move. But if you wind it up all the time, even when you're not playing, it starts to feel like work instead of fun. Soon, you don’t want to wind it up anymore, it feels too much, and you just want to rest.

When someone is burned out, they feel:

• really tired all the time, even after resting
• like they don’t care about anything they used to enjoy
• overwhelmed by little things that used to be easy

It’s like your toy robot has stopped dancing, it just sits there, and you don’t want to wind it up again.

Burnout happens when you keep doing the same thing for too long without taking a break. It's like playing with your robot nonstop, eventually, it stops being fun, and you feel exhausted.