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Jan. 5th, 2019 01:12 pmYou can't reblog on Dreamwidth, can you :/
Well, I read![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gamerchick02's post about the article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation and read the article and hit this quote:
“The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced,” Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst specializing in burnout, writes. “You feel burnout when you’ve exhausted all your internal resources, yet cannot free yourself of the nervous compulsion to go on regardless.”
I'm not a millenial. I was born in 1978. And I've got it good. Really, I do. But that paragraph sounds like the summary of me. My eternal refrain in my depression is, "I just want to be done," or, "Can't I be done, yet?" I latched on to the Hobbit song of the road going ever on and on because I was DONE and felt like I couldn't quit unless I cut my hands off. Which is when my therapist really did start insisting I should go into the hospital.
I don't know how I can have burnout. I don't do enough to have burnout.Not in the way the article talks about of molding yourself to unrealistic expectations but in the literal I don't have a job and I'm not going to starve or be homeless because it doesn't matter way. But this article is resonating in a really weird way. I am recognizing myself in it. Which is really bad and confusing. I shouldn't. I have the ultimate in off the clock.
And I have no idea where to go with this. I mostly want to say holy shit. Me too. Sorry it's so bad for all the rest of you. And read the article. :/ I just want to reblog. I miss reblogging already.
Well, I read
gamerchick02's post about the article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation and read the article and hit this quote:“The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced,” Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst specializing in burnout, writes. “You feel burnout when you’ve exhausted all your internal resources, yet cannot free yourself of the nervous compulsion to go on regardless.”
I'm not a millenial. I was born in 1978. And I've got it good. Really, I do. But that paragraph sounds like the summary of me. My eternal refrain in my depression is, "I just want to be done," or, "Can't I be done, yet?" I latched on to the Hobbit song of the road going ever on and on because I was DONE and felt like I couldn't quit unless I cut my hands off. Which is when my therapist really did start insisting I should go into the hospital.
I don't know how I can have burnout. I don't do enough to have burnout.Not in the way the article talks about of molding yourself to unrealistic expectations but in the literal I don't have a job and I'm not going to starve or be homeless because it doesn't matter way. But this article is resonating in a really weird way. I am recognizing myself in it. Which is really bad and confusing. I shouldn't. I have the ultimate in off the clock.
And I have no idea where to go with this. I mostly want to say holy shit. Me too. Sorry it's so bad for all the rest of you. And read the article. :/ I just want to reblog. I miss reblogging already.
