Name: 如果你的大腦無法停下來 ► 你可能正經歷「非典型倦怠」！- 哈佛大學醫生Dr. Aditi Nerurkar（中英字幕）
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What burnout is looking like has changed.

Now we are seeing increasingly atypical features of burnout.

You're checking your phone multiple times per night, you might be experiencing atypical burnout.

The interesting thing about burnout is that the definition is changing.

Earlier, when you think about burnout, yourself might think like, "Oh, I know what burnout is.

Classic, typical symptoms of burnout, apathy, lethargy, feeling unproductive, not very motivated.

In 2020, 2021, and 2022, what burnout is looking like has changed.

It is no longer these classic typical symptoms.

In one study, 60 percent of people with burnout had an inability to disconnect from work as their main feature of burnout.

You could be that person who is engaged in work and can't shut off and you're thinking to yourself, "this can't be burnout.

You might be experiencing atypical burnout.

Cause yeah, when I think of burnout, I think of like, uh, like not getting out of bed and losing motivation.

But you're telling me that my addiction to work might be a symptom and a sign of being burnt out.

You know when it is different from your baseline.

But you also make time for sleep, relationships and connections with loved ones.

It is not interfering with your day-to-day life, so to speak.

So, when you are feeling that sense of inability to unplug.

That means you're checking your phone multiple times per night because you feel like you have to keep up.

You are trying to keep up in in the hamster wheel situation where you just can't.

And often people don't recognize that it's happening to them simply because the face and definition of burnout is changing.

There are lots of studies on burnout, one big study, it was done on parental burnout and found that two thirds of parents have burnout.

And that is probably underestimated and certainly underreported.

There's also a lot of stigma and shame around burnout so people don't want to come forward and say, "Hey, I might have be stressed or I might have burnout."

If I have that atypical burnout, why does it matter?

If I didn't feel like there's anything wrong, if I'm successful in my work, what is the case for making a change?

So I've had lots of patients, I had a clinical practice in Boston, and what you're describing is the, you know, young entrepreneur.

So many patients who are young entrepreneurs, and the question I would always ask them is what's your end game?

Are you looking to do this for two years and you love it and then that's it?

Or do you want to think about what your life is gonna look like ten, twenty, thirty years from now?

And so they would think about it, ponder, and then say, "yeah, I wanna spend time, my end game is that I wanna lead a great life and I wanna live until I'm seventy five or until I'm a hundred."

You know, burnout is not conducive with this idea of longevity and having that long life.

You can do that intensity, but you can't do it consistently.

For me is the really clear cost to that is you just play it out zoom out on your life and 10 years time.

Human beings, we don't have an unlimited amount of bandwidth.

There is a discreet amount of bandwidth that we all have, mental and physical.

And so if you are not getting the proper rest that you need.

And you're not sleeping as much as your body and brain need.

I've also had many patients who've said that to me.

But your brain and your body do physiologically and biologically need a certain amount of rest.

Simply for the cellular function to continue.