Mini - burnout

yep, mini burnouts, maxi-burnouts and everything in between for me!  Working out where they have come from and how to deal with them is almost impossible though.

I'm not surprised you are feeling like this given all the activities you have just dealt with.

It's not easy. What gets me through is my inability to not stick to my word, not fulfilling commitments is a no go for me. I tell myself: OK the next x hours of work are going to be hard, but when we get home there will be a bath and a nice evening of relaxing, I promise I won't make you do anything else!

It works for me. At the end of the day, work is really the only non negotiable structure in my life. Without it, I would dissolve into a puddle of misery - this result became incredibly apparent during my, comparatively short, COVID quarantine.

I get something similar. Thats why having a job is so difficult, how do I go to work when I am having one of those days 

Someone put a link recently to something about burnout. In that it described two types, one that sounds like a mini one where you start to get signs and another long term I believe. 

I can feel exhausted after a busy week and not able to do a lot and the same after a workman has come to do some work. 

Have you recovered enough from the last one? It sounds like a stressful week. Plan in some enjoyment / light exercise / relax time / duvet day for recovery. Some advice recently was when you least want to do exercise is probably when you need to do it most. There needs to be a balance between choice and demand but only you can do that. 

I think the differences between burnout, autistic exhaustion and shutdown can be hard to define, and maybe unnecessary to define, unless you're trying to get time off work or claim benefits.

I know that feeling so very well. It's nice to know I'm not the only one

With me, I need to lie down and rest, as I just end up feeling too drained to be capable of much else. 

This weekend was like several min-burnouts adding up to one big one. Family stuff, all of it last minute and taxing, and keeping me away from my sanctuary of home. Trying to explain to most how that went would prompt a 'catch yourself on. That's it?!' from most NT people. But not here. 

I find long walks are often necessary after spending extended periods of time with my mother. A conversation is mostly fine, but when visiting each other, oooof, I need my time out lol

I am sure mini burnouts are what I often experience after interacting with my mother. The briefest of conversations can be enough to drain my batteries, and it can sometimes take me a day or two to recover.

I *think* I had one very recently. But, unfortunately, I always struggle to recognise issues like this - I have to be told by others.

Mine are mostly about uncontrollable or unpredictable emotions rather than being caused by material matters.

I sometimes have times when I feel like everything is too stressful and I need to hide away for a while. This often involves turning my duvet into a protective cacoon and refusing to leave my bed, or at least my flat. This occurs fairly frequently, with differing degrees of isolation, and is often a reaction to over socialising; I hibernated for nearly a week after Christmas and then again after new year's, for example. Perhaps these moments could be described as mini burnouts, but I'm not sure.

I have low-level burnout. It tends to make me oversleep. But, these past few days, I set my alarm and got up before nine am.