Burnout often stems from a lack of purpose and agency, not just workload. Empowering teams with meaningful tasks and autonomy fosters motivation and connection to their work.
Not OP but for me it was declining motivation to even get up leading into complete disability inability to go to work in the morning. I was dragging myself to the shower with my head down, drove to work emotionless and all I could feel was an enormous weight pressing me down. I felt like an empty shell.
In my case it was an absolutely horrible project manager that tried to motivate by competition. Everyone against everyone. And the role i tried to fill was way over my head, but he refused to acknowledge. Some months later I was out for three months and I still struggle after five years. I think this fueled my depression and led to my divorce. I will fight everyone who tries to impose the same amount of stress on any of my colleagues for the rest of my life.
Edit: it’s late, I’m tired and too German for eloquent English. Sorry for the messy rant
Not OP but for me it was declining motivation to even get up leading into complete
disabilityinability to go to work in the morning. I was dragging myself to the shower with my head down, drove to work emotionless and all I could feel was an enormous weight pressing me down. I felt like an empty shell.In my case it was an absolutely horrible project manager that tried to motivate by competition. Everyone against everyone. And the role i tried to fill was way over my head, but he refused to acknowledge. Some months later I was out for three months and I still struggle after five years. I think this fueled my depression and led to my divorce. I will fight everyone who tries to impose the same amount of stress on any of my colleagues for the rest of my life.
Edit: it’s late, I’m tired and too German for eloquent English. Sorry for the messy rant