the way that so many people have become incapacitated by immeasurable grief and depression and pain over the past year and it has been watered down to "burnout and how to avoid it so you can do better work!" makes me want to start smashing things

im tired of hearing "burnout" to encapsulate anything from "writers block" to "trying to get out of bed in the morning makes this person start sobbing and have a nervous breakdown". those things arent the same. a shitton of people are disabled and traumatized that werent before

shut up about work. shut the fuck up about work. it isnt just a sign of "burnout" to be brought to tears because you know you have something to do today. you are in so much pain and people expecting you to prioritize work in that agony is fucking sociopathic

its not about fucking burnout its about people at their wits end tumbling from one nervous breakdown to the next because they know they cant rest because no one else will pay their bills, but they know in their gut if they dont rest they will fucking die.

like i wish i had the fucking solution. i dont know. i just kick dollars at as many donation posts as i fucking can. what else is anyone supposed to do anymore. no one should be living like this. people need healing they cant afford to get