Burnout

A new study has ranked Australians at the highest risk of burnout, with 1 in 2 of us suffering from its impact on our health.

Burnout is when demands of a situation or environment begin to outweigh our internal and external resources to adapt. It is the result of excessive and prolonged stress leaving a person feeling mentally exhausted and devoid of motivation.

The feeling of pressures being more than a person can handle triggers the brain to activate the survival fight or flight stress response.

When the body sits in a chronic state of stress the body’s capacity to fight off illness and disease becomes compromised. This is why we are more likely to get sick and take longer to recover when we are stressed. 

In the long term, experiencing chronic stress is associated with higher rates of health issues (from symptoms through to developing a disease) and earlier death.

Taking intentional positive steps to avoid and eliminate stressors within your life is critical if you are not to fall into the grips of burnout and become the 1 in 2 Australians who suffer from it.

Learning to take time to slowdown, rest, and relax is a good start but you may find you need to build new lifestyle choices and habits that deactivate the fight or flight response rather than provoke it.

Using chiropractic, especially brain health chiropractic to allow the nervous system to recover and reset from the multitude of stressors a person faces through their day may just be an important piece of preventing the burnout puzzle.