Poll: What is your most frequent warning of burnout?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other Jun 22

I wonder if burnout can be caused by lack of work?

Maria Laura Curzi
Angie Garbarino
expressisverbis
 
Lingua 5B
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Probably Jun 22

I become somewhat cranky and edgy. And that's a signal for me that says: time to book a nice vacation.

 
Thayenga
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Typos Jun 22

When I start hitting the wrong key sequence it's time to take a break. Its length depends on the current workload and might last a week or two. Due to these errors I do become somewhat irritated which increases the number of errors so that I would only harm my reputation if I continue to work anyway due to poor quality.

[Edited at 2026-06-22 09:58 GMT]


 
Zea_Mays
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hm Jun 22

Burnout is a serious medical condition that requires therapy, while the options in this poll rather suggest that fatigue is actually meant.

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Agnes Fatrai
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
Jennifer Levey
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Laura Curzi
Bruno Veilleux
 
Lingua 5B
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Definition by WHO (World Health Organization): Jun 22

Burnout is not classified as a formal mental illness or medical disease. Instead, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes it as an occupational phenomenon—a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed…

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Fatigue also requires attention because it may be caused by underlying medical issues. “Fatigue” is not the same as being tired.


Daryo
 
Daryo
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It's got to the stage ... Jun 22

Zea_Mays wrote:

Burnout is a serious medical condition that requires therapy, while the options in this poll rather suggest that fatigue is actually meant.


It's got to the stage when I get pleasantly surprised when from time to time a poll question uses words for what they actually mean.

Playing fast and loose with words has become all too 'normal' in many places, but wasn’t this one supposed to be for 'pros' in dealing with words ...?


Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 
Ricardo Aries
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The Worst Signs You Can Imagine Jun 24

Dark omens of my overwhelming burnout emerge: blood pressure soaring to 150/95 mm Hg, a heart relentlessly pounding at 130 bpm, and a suffocating feeling of breathlessness even in the simplest of clothes.

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 
WolfgangS
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It sounds Jun 24

as if we had burnouts every other day. Severe fatigue, as Zea says, yes, sure, but no serious medical condition.

expressisverbis
Maria Laura Curzi
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 
Josephine Cassar
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Eyes and more... Jun 24

First physical sign for me is smarting eyes where I have to blink several times to continue working but still not focusing properly. Then I start getting pain in right hand (wrist and elbow) and difficulty focusing in that order, time to call it a day or for a break therefore. I make sure I don't accept too much work at the same time as I don't function like that. At the moment it's either long periods of no work or ling periods of a great amount of work with which I can't cope either. Too much ... See more
First physical sign for me is smarting eyes where I have to blink several times to continue working but still not focusing properly. Then I start getting pain in right hand (wrist and elbow) and difficulty focusing in that order, time to call it a day or for a break therefore. I make sure I don't accept too much work at the same time as I don't function like that. At the moment it's either long periods of no work or ling periods of a great amount of work with which I can't cope either. Too much of a good thing?Collapse


 
expressisverbis
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Other Jun 25

First boundaries, then pressure, now burnout.
Are we being surveyed or clinically assessed? 😂
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