Post No. 2,897 - Recovering from a corporate life - Episode 34: burnout

For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

Posts in this series are now listed at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/recovering-from-corporate-life.html. 

PS - expect these to be eddited fairly often. Writing these is part of the healing process, and will bring up more insights,etc.

This is just a quick thought: 

looking back, I now consider that for most (not all) of the last three decades of my working life, I was in a state of burnout - mostly autistic

And that is part of why recovering now is so difficult.

PS - all the damage from abuse I received, and the responses (that I internalised to suppress) to amathia and power imbalances, doesn’t help either. 

PPS - I have just come across this excellent article by Dr Devon Price: 

“You Might Not Recover from Burnout. Ever”   https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/you-might-not-recover-from-burnout   “What grows from the ashes of your old life?”     

On the basis of my experience, I agree with that sentiment ... and I have decided to re-read Dr Price’s book    “Laziness Does Not Exist”   https://www.amazon.com.au/Laziness-Does-Exist-Devon-Price-ebook/dp/B08BZXM734/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0     

Blessed be.

I am writing this series in the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding - or at least better research into the effects of - the so-called developed world’s economic systems - which are based on the world-destroying amathia of perpetual growth, and patriarchal oligarchical capitalism expressed as often expressed corporatism and neoliberalism.

 

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(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)   

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