From playing video games to educating the leaders of tomorrow—everyone can experience burnout. But who’s likely to be afflicted by such a dilemma? Medical professionals who sacrifice and fight every day for the common people. So, how do we help them cure burnout? Burnout can change everything about a person, and it’s never for the…
Category: Mental Health
Resilience vs Fortitude vs Perseverance: Are They the Same?
Healthcare workers can experience high rates of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and distress from the hardships of their profession. Having attributes such as resilience, fortitude, and perseverance during this time can allow them to bounce back rather than becoming burnt out. This fact leads us to the question, what are resilience, fortitude, and perseverance, and are…
10 Warning Signs of a Mental Breakdown (And What to Do)
A mental breakdown can be the result of extreme emotional distress. This stress can be caused by numerous reasons within a person’s life. While there are several causes to a mental breakdown, from sudden tragedy to financial issues, there are signs to look for that a mental breakdown may be brewing. It is inevitable that…
Burnout vs. Nervous Breakdown – How to Tell the Difference
Burnout or a nervous breakdown can have serious ramifications for a person’s life and professional career. Depending on the severity of the breakdown or burnout, it can even cause someone to lose their job or livelihood. Burnout is different from a nervous breakdown because it is not as severe. A nervous breakdown can result from…
How to Explain Burnout to Your Friends and Family
Like many other mental health struggles that go ignored, burnout continues to plague more and more of the population every day. Yet, so many people choose to ignore the severity of the issue. Between work, family, friends, and all the other things we have to keep up with in life, how can you explain being…
How to Teach Resilience in the Classroom
Classrooms have and will continue to change. The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically altered how the classroom is defined. Expectations of students inside and outside the classroom look and are vastly different from the inception of public education. Children need to be resilient to endure these changes. Many parents, educators, and taxpayers may wonder why resilience…
10 Reasons Why Resilience Is Important for Mental Health
Life is full of ups and downs, with many things that are beyond our control. While life doesn’t always give us complete control over everything happening in our lives, in time, it helps us to develop resilience to overcome life’s greatest challenge yet. We must maintain strong resilience in our life to ensure our survival,…
Is Resilience the Opposite of Burnout?
When most people suffer exhaustion after working too hard or too long, they often long to take a break for a few days. However, this is not possible at times, so they end up taking only short time outs while still working. But is this ideal, or is it a recipe for burnout? Resilience is…
Does Being More Productive Make You Happy?
Nowadays, the world only seems to be interested in one thing: how much work we can fit into a certain amount of time. “Productivity” is the new ‘it-word.’ There are books about it that teach thousands of people how to be more productive, but is there actually anything in it for us, and does being…
Should You Go to Work When You Didn’t Get Any Sleep?
So you weren’t able to get any sleep last night, and all you want to do is crawl back under the covers and hit snooze all day long, but you can’t because you need to go to work. Now you’re at a crossroads; either you suck it up and go to work, or you call…
