Category Burnout

She was the kind of leader everyone admired. A senior director at a global tech firm, responsible for 200 people across three continents. She woke up at 5 AM to answer emails from Asia, spent her days in back‑to‑back meetings, and collapsed at 10 PM after answering Europe. Weekends were for catching up. Holidays were for checking in. She told herself she was fine. She was not fine.

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You know the quarterly business review. Revenue, expenses, KPIs, OKRs. Numbers go up or down. You celebrate or you course‑correct. But nowhere on the agenda is the most important metric of all: your energy.

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The email arrives. The client is furious. Your boss demands an explanation. Your heart races. Your palms sweat. And then – you react. Not the way you planned. Not the way you would have chosen in a calm moment.

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You are tired. But you have been tired before. You recovered after a good night’s sleep. This time, sleep does not help. You are not just exhausted—you are hollow. Work that used to energise you now feels pointless. Colleagues’ small requests feel like personal attacks. You have started to believe that nothing you do matters.

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Your inbox has 147 unread messages. Three people are waiting for answers. Two deadlines passed yesterday. A colleague just marked a request “ASAP.” Your phone buzzes with a Slack message from your manager: “Quick question when you have a moment.”

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You wake up tired even after eight hours of sleep. The projects that excited you six months ago now feel like chores. You cancel plans with friends not because you are sad, but because the thought of social effort feels impossibly heavy. Your to‑do list has not grown, but your capacity to face it has shrunk.

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You have tried everything. You sleep seven hours. You drink less coffee. You meditate in the morning. Yet by 2 PM, you feel like someone pulled your plug. Your brain fogs over. Small requests feel heavy. You snap at a colleague for no reason. At the end of the day, you collapse on the couch and scroll mindlessly for an hour before you can even think about dinner.

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You wake up tired. You drag yourself through the morning. You sit at your desk and stare at the screen. Nothing feels urgent. Nothing feels meaningful. You are not sad, exactly. You are just… empty.

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You know the feeling. You wake up tired. You drink coffee to start, tea to continue, and by mid‑afternoon you are counting hours until bed. You look at colleagues who seem to have endless reserves — working late, saying yes to every project, still energetic at 5 p.m. — and you wonder: What is wrong with me?

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