{"id":1725,"date":"2018-08-15T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2018-08-07T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:22:57","slug":"burnout-is-a-long-and-winding-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/burnout-depression\/burnout-is-a-long-and-winding-road","title":{"rendered":"Burnout is a Long and Winding Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looked upon as a road, burnout shows a different need of management, one that may generally be more humane as well as efficient.<\/h3>\n

\u2018Burnout\u2019 is like a piece of reality that gets cut out by convention.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s not something that gets discovered: not in general \u2013 textbook-wise \u2013 nor in a specific case such as maybe yours. Every situation is different. There are of course some characteristics according to which the difference is made. But: sticking to these in spite of everything may do more harm than it may help you.<\/p>\n

Moreover, burnout is generally seen as an \u2018entity\u2019, a kind of disease that one gets into and hopefully back out again.<\/p>\n

If you fight it like a disease, it\u2019s you who make it a disease.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it\u2019s better and more efficient to see it as a road<\/em> in a very broad way. Where this road \u2018starts\u2019 and where it \u2018ends\u2019 is not very relevant. It\u2019s like a hill with gentle slopes. Even better: it\u2019s like a landscape.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s stick to the road: the road of one\u2019s life.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If one gets into a burnout and then gets out again but also gets into drinking alcohol more and more because of the same underlying situation, I think it\u2019s better to say that his burnout hasn\u2019t finished yet.<\/p>\n

Namely: \u2018That what was called burnout\u2019 now shows itself as \u2018alcoholism\u2019 and may later on turn itself into an \u2018alcoholized burnout\u2019. It\u2019s mostly the same thing that shows itself in different guises.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same road, that traverses different landscapes.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To call it with different names is misguiding.<\/p>\n

Of course, at the same time they are<\/em> different \u2018conditions\u2019 that can be used as entry-points towards proper management. The point is that when you look at \u2018burnout\u2019 as separate, then you readily end up fighting it as a disease.<\/p>\n

A long and winding road needs a different management.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It needs guidance. Sometimes a little, sometimes quite a lot. It needs self-management, you yourself being the traveler. Most of all, despite the hardships and possible dangers, it needs seeing the road as interesting. A long and winding road is long and windingly interesting.<\/p>\n

Interesting is not the same as comfortable.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paradoxically, if you try to grab the comfort, it\u2019s elusive. Contrary to this, if you appreciate the interesting, it may end up making your life more comfortable.<\/p>\n

You have to let go, to relinquish \u2018control\u2019 in order to get deeper control.<\/p>\n

You can look at \u2018control\u2019 and \u2018comfort\u2019 as a bike without wheels. It won\u2019t help you on the road although, short-sightedly, you might have the impression that it does.<\/p>\n

So, accept your road and try to make the best of it.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again and again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never finished before you say so. You can always get up again and continue, make something, enjoy in-depth, jump over stones and climb the hills.<\/p>\n

You deserve it and others deserve it and the whole world deserves it.<\/p>\n

\u2018Long and winding\u2019 also means surprising. Good things and bad things may happen. Best is: accept [see: \u2018Acceptance?<\/a>\u2019] and carry on. Each stage you manage well, will help you the whole way through.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s mainly why it\u2019s a road.<\/p>\n

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