Burnout Recovery: 3 Solution-Focused Steps

Depletion of physical and emotional resources caused by prolonged stress. This leads to feelings of worry, dissatisfaction and dreading daily activities. While burnout may cause empathic strain, resulting in decreased motivation and overall emotional and physical exhaustion from occupational stressors, a key difference from empathic strain is it can happen in any profession and is not tied to trauma exposure. Unlike vicarious trauma and empathic strain, burnout is usually resolved more quickly.