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Burnout: how to tell it from tiredness — and what to do while you're still working

Tiredness lifts after a weekend. Burnout does not: exhaustion, distance from work and a sense that effort achieves nothing last for weeks.

Here: how to tell burnout from tiredness and from low mood, and what you can do while still working — protect real recovery, draw one boundary, negotiate the load, bring back small pleasures outside work.

If low mood lasts longer than two weeks, you lose interest in almost everything, or thoughts of harming yourself appear, it is not “just burnout”. Talk to a doctor or a psychologist.

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