Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm still trying to understand what burnout is because I feel like it manifests in different ways.
Currently, I'm in an IBD flare up. This comes after a busy summer, stress about work, parenting, and I'm about to move house (so have been selling ours, with all the difficulties that brings).
Mystified as how to cure my IBD flares I recently read a book by Temple Grandin who openly discusses her journey. The part that interested me was where she says she started taking an antidepressant and this put an end to her colitis flare ups.
So I was wondering, how does burnout manifest in you, has medication helped you, and do you think burnout is why I'm so sick again?
I've got Crohn's and it's not a lot of fun. I get frequent flare ups and they normally get triggered by stress, and that worsens the flare up, and if things get bad enough it's a few nights in hospital for me. Stress lowers your immune system so it's no surprise that it makes you feel ill.
I've been unlucky enough once so far to get burnout, after my sister died, and that combined with my anxiety and my Crohn's was horrendous. I've never felt so ill and the exhaustion that came with it was debilitating.