Sometimes people have nothing left. They’ve been trying to keep going for years, and then it’s like they run out of juice. They don’t have any energy or spark. Resting doesn’t help, and nor does just carrying on as normal.
This is sometimes called burnout. Burnout results from chronic stress, often in a workplace. When defined by the World Health Organisation, it has three main parts. Exhaustion, feelings of negativity or cynicism, and reduced efficacy. Burnout is not a medical problem, it’s an occupational one. It happens when a person is under chronic stress for too long.
A growing number of teenagers and children seem to be burnout by life. They stop being able to function, they often retreat to their bedrooms, and everything seems too much. It’s hard for their parents to know what to do. Burnout was traditionally thought of as the result of work – but these young people seem to be burnt out by school.
Autistic people may be particularly prone to burnout due to how stressful they find daily life, but burnout itself can be experienced by anyone. The process of recovery is similar whether you or your child are autistic or not. There is no evidence that autistic burnout is distinctly different to burnout.
An increasing number of parents are saying that their children have 'lost their spark' and don't enjoy things in the way that they used to. They are exhausted and lacking in energy. Some of them become completely unable to attend school and stop doing things they used to be able to do. In this new course, Naomi discusses burnout in children and what can parents do about it. She'll describe the factors which contribute to burnout and how parents can prevent it. She'll then move on to talking about children who are already burnt out and will give some tips for helping them to move towards recovery.
Parenting is hard work. You spend your time fighting the system for what they need and the demands can be relentless. There's never time to stop and reflect before the next crisis begin. You're burnt out by the demands, and the thing is, you can't take a break from parenting. There's no option of taking some time off to recover. You can't renegotiate your hours. In this new course, Naomi talks about what parenting burn out is, whether you might have it and how you can start to recover, whilst continuing to meet the needs of your children. It will give you some ideas as to how to start to turn things around.
This mini-course is for teenagers to watch themselves. It explains burnout, why our bodies go into burnout, what that process looks like and how we can recover. It is broken down into small sections and has subtitles. Featuring Chloe from Me Just Me.
Things have gone wrong at school for your teenager, and now it’s like they have nothing left. They have lost their sense of what made life worth living. You don’t know how to help, and sometimes it seems like whatever you do makes things worse. Naomi will explain how burnout happens and what the process of recovery looks like.
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