holy shit

i mean, i knew i was stressed this year between work and the unsuccessful search for more work. what i didn't know was that my symptoms are classic burn out!

taken from a scientific american mind article:

"The term "burnout syndrome" was coined in the early 1970s by Herbert J. Freudenberger, a New York psychoanalyst. Freudenberger had noticed that his own job, which was once so rewarding, had come to leave him feeling only fatigued and frustrated. Then he noticed that many of the physicians around him had, over time, turned into depressive cynics. As a result, those doctors increasingly treated their patients coldly and dismissively.

Freudenberger soon began looking at examples outside of health care — and found similar cases in many professions. Afflicted people suffered from mood fluctuations, disturbed sleep and difficulty concentrating. Accompanying the mental distress were physical ailments such as backaches or digestive disorders. Freudenberger defined burnout syndrome as a state of mental and physical exhaustion caused by one's professional life."

how bout being broke and unemployed to bring that on.