By AARP staff — 2019
Recognize the signs and get the help you need to reduce the toll on your body and mind
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Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them.
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When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine.
It's burnout season for college students everywhere so I decided to give some college advice on the topic. Stay strong.
Are you feeling exhausted, hollow, cynical, trapped, angry or just not there? Working harder but getting less done? Ill too often or for too long? Or do you know someone else who feels like this? These are some of the classic warning signs of burnout.
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Burnout looks a lot like depression, but it's not a biological bogeyman that medication or simple stress management can cure.