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Burnout and Mental Health
Burnout and Mental Health
I read this-- a story about burnout and memory loss-- a few months ago, and it stuck with me. http://www.clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2015/03/ten-years-down.html The other week, I was talking with an industry veteran. In the conversation, he mentioned he could barely remember a three year period of his life.
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I'd imagine there are a lot of people in here who have struggle with this on different levels. I'd love to hear your stories and how you cope!




I've been in the industry right about 30 years. Have had burnout a number of times. The last one was very severe due to a very toxic environment that lasted a number of years. Burnout and toxic politics can not just affect your memory but your health overall. I am still trying to recover. My memory was affected but I also ended up with MS sort of symptoms that were stress induced. My recommendation is if you get into burnout, get out of the environment as quickly as possible. If you don't, there will be hell to pay later.