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Yes. The only cure is to give up. Work less. Do the bare minimum.

Knowing your own limitations is good, even if that means having to tell an employer "No" when they ask you to work hours longer than you're capable of. 

Pushing burnout further tends to make it worse, but abstaining entirely can lend to becoming un-used to it too. 

Xadem said: 

I'm pretty sure I'm in some stage of burn-out. Its symptoms are generic, and have plenty of overlap, but I can tie them to my job. The experience is distinct from depression in the sense that I don't dread my day-to-day life. I still like a lot about my career even, it's just that I've been going full throttle for too long. 

I feel pretty stupid for getting myself into this. There was a point where I legitimately thought that my lifestyle was OK, working 10-12 hour days with little breaks, spending evenings 'grinding' as they say.

It helped a shitload, for sure, but what good is rapid improvement if it's followed by a period of stagnation? 

Has anyone else ever suffered a burnout, and if so how did you treat it? 

 I quit. Do as I say; not as I do.

MadeMed said: 

Xadem said: 

I'm pretty sure I'm in some stage of burn-out. Its symptoms are generic, and have plenty of overlap, but I can tie them to my job. The experience is distinct from depression in the sense that I don't dread my day-to-day life. I still like a lot about my career even, it's just that I've been going full throttle for too long. 

I feel pretty stupid for getting myself into this. There was a point where I legitimately thought that my lifestyle was OK, working 10-12 hour days with little breaks, spending evenings 'grinding' as they say.

It helped a shitload, for sure, but what good is rapid improvement if it's followed by a period of stagnation? 

Has anyone else ever suffered a burnout, and if so how did you treat it? 

 I quit. Do as I say; not as I do.

 Quitting is oh so tempting.

Very rarely if working 1 job.

PastelPink said: 

MadeMed said: 

Xadem said: 

I'm pretty sure I'm in some stage of burn-out. Its symptoms are generic, and have plenty of overlap, but I can tie them to my job. The experience is distinct from depression in the sense that I don't dread my day-to-day life. I still like a lot about my career even, it's just that I've been going full throttle for too long. 

I feel pretty stupid for getting myself into this. There was a point where I legitimately thought that my lifestyle was OK, working 10-12 hour days with little breaks, spending evenings 'grinding' as they say.

It helped a shitload, for sure, but what good is rapid improvement if it's followed by a period of stagnation? 

Has anyone else ever suffered a burnout, and if so how did you treat it? 

 I quit. Do as I say; not as I do.

 Quitting is oh so tempting.

 Yeah I meant med school; should have stayed the course 

I am an extremist, I usually go to an extreme, or I don't go at all.

So when I feel exhausted on a subject that I have been going on like its my destiny, I sometimes just do nothing for very long time.

However, the correct method, as I have discovered later, is to instead switch to another subject that I will exhaust and then another and so on. Eventually, I even return to my previous subjects.

As for the job, I do the bare minimum when I do not feel like working and I go to extremes when I do. That makes people think I work hard or something, I honestly have no idea, but I get promotions and praise. I do my job well tho, even when its the bare minimum, its solid.

MadeMed said: 

PastelPink said: 

MadeMed said: 

 I quit. Do as I say; not as I do.

 Quitting is oh so tempting.

 Yeah I meant med school; should have stayed the course 

 but you didn't, so lets move on shall we