Burnout & Physiological symptoms

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I have presently got unexplained symptoms that almost saw me admitted to hospital yesterday. Today I realised I’m probably in burnout mode and struggling not to fully shutdown and hibernate. I was therefore wondering if anyone has ever had physiological symptoms during burnout or whether they just happen to be comorbiid?

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Andrew

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  • Ok, following my IAPT session i understood what's wrong with me.... I've burnt out again....because I haven't recovered from the last one(3 years ago). Well, that's ffffffffffed. My symptoms would be...unable to concentrate on my work , weird thoughts, my mind make up vivid images about me graduating happily instead of let me work for it...and tbh I'm starting hibernating, finding myself daydreaming while sitting at the computer rather than actively working on my goal,and my phone seems to tell me i've been walking 10 miles around the sofa daily...when i work on my arch projects I normally enter in a hyperfocus mode where nothing around me exists or makes sense in any way besides my work...this time my brain  refuses to comply with my wish to hyperfocus and get in my work mode trance.....which is not really ideal when i have a hand-in in 2 weeks....I'll ask help from the GP...i'm drained, need a break and need to defer my studies. At the last severe burnout,i achieved my goal and afterwards i started dissociating, felt absolutely ethereal and the world around me or myself didn't seem to feel real anymore...the world from my head started taking over the real one. I need a mental and physical break, be4 i breakdown and start to feel again unreal in an unreal world. Mental health, kids, and my DH are on the 1st place, i need to give architecture the second place in my life for my own health. I've been recommended Exposure therapy and SSRI as my burnout shows characteristics of PTSD, i am really reluctant to SSRI especially i've seen yesterday somebody in major panick attacks after their Gp suggested they should come off them, and she did, all of a sudden, not gradually,she thought she's basically dying yesterday. Had anybody experienced any results with such therapies?Are there any demonstrated benefits of SSRI on aspie brains?  I need also to say I have not been officially diagnosed, I am on the 3 years list for it, so IAPT won't consider me aspie unless i'm diagnosed, and i don't feel high functioning anymore,but somehow i still mask it as it comes natural to me to do so.Though i feel like having a meltdown in front of my tutor, i'm crawling through trenches of inner war...and smile lovely to everybody.

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  • Ok, following my IAPT session i understood what's wrong with me.... I've burnt out again....because I haven't recovered from the last one(3 years ago). Well, that's ffffffffffed. My symptoms would be...unable to concentrate on my work , weird thoughts, my mind make up vivid images about me graduating happily instead of let me work for it...and tbh I'm starting hibernating, finding myself daydreaming while sitting at the computer rather than actively working on my goal,and my phone seems to tell me i've been walking 10 miles around the sofa daily...when i work on my arch projects I normally enter in a hyperfocus mode where nothing around me exists or makes sense in any way besides my work...this time my brain  refuses to comply with my wish to hyperfocus and get in my work mode trance.....which is not really ideal when i have a hand-in in 2 weeks....I'll ask help from the GP...i'm drained, need a break and need to defer my studies. At the last severe burnout,i achieved my goal and afterwards i started dissociating, felt absolutely ethereal and the world around me or myself didn't seem to feel real anymore...the world from my head started taking over the real one. I need a mental and physical break, be4 i breakdown and start to feel again unreal in an unreal world. Mental health, kids, and my DH are on the 1st place, i need to give architecture the second place in my life for my own health. I've been recommended Exposure therapy and SSRI as my burnout shows characteristics of PTSD, i am really reluctant to SSRI especially i've seen yesterday somebody in major panick attacks after their Gp suggested they should come off them, and she did, all of a sudden, not gradually,she thought she's basically dying yesterday. Had anybody experienced any results with such therapies?Are there any demonstrated benefits of SSRI on aspie brains?  I need also to say I have not been officially diagnosed, I am on the 3 years list for it, so IAPT won't consider me aspie unless i'm diagnosed, and i don't feel high functioning anymore,but somehow i still mask it as it comes natural to me to do so.Though i feel like having a meltdown in front of my tutor, i'm crawling through trenches of inner war...and smile lovely to everybody.

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