"If you overwork yourself and feel like you’re burning out, stop what you’re doing and find stability—whatever you’re working on isn’t worth your health. Don’t feel the need to “hustle” because some people glorify it. Doing good work while living a healthy life is much more respectable."<p>Quite good advice IMO. I could relate to this author doing 'all the right things' (meditation, drinking less coffee, excercise, etc. - " I tried everything to calm myself down. I switched from coffee to tea. I tried rhodiola drops and CBD. I started meditating and using breathing apps.") and still not improving mental health. The truth is, in my experience sometimes a change in circumstances and/or medication are really necessary to start healing mentally.
Jonnie Hallman shares a very personal story I think all of us can relate to at some point in our career. Finding sustainability in our career and personal life is something I wish more people would talk about. I've been thinking about it a lot in the past few years, figuring out decision frameworks for myself at work and home.
The timing of this is fortunate. I wouldn't want to have gone into 2020 burned out and limping along. I really liked the author's writing style and it led me to feel genuinely relieved that the conclusion was that they found awesome, stable work before the pandemic hit.
Ugh, I also experienced a few panic attacks along with a burnout diagnosis.<p>In my case the trigger was a bug that caused money loss in a customer's website. I had been diagnosed with burnout already, but was freelancing so I could work less hours. Bad idea.<p>The losses were very small. Even if I were to pay it all by myself it would be less than 10% of the amount the customer owed me (it was a 2 week project), but that didn't stop me from feeling like I had the world on my shoulders. In the end the customer said "whatever" and I didn't even had to pay. Lesson learned.
Is there a rise of late in up voted/front page “burnout” articles on HN?<p>It seems like there is, but I’ve been struggling with my own burnout issues more than ever before, so maybe the rate is the same as it’s always been and I’m just more sensitive.