>What are the signs that you're about to burn out? Burnout is a float number not a binary. Early burnout is just crashing after work. You might be mentally/ph

>What are the signs that you're about to burn out? Burnout is a float number not a binary. Early burnout is just crashing after work. You might be mentally/physically/spiritually exhausted from whatever and you just cant go on. This early burnout feels normal but it's the warning zone. Time to do something. If not stress += 1 is going to happen. Second stage is where you start doubting yourself. The things from the first stage exhausting you are now making you feel shame. Like did my skills drop or am I not good enough to fix that problem? The third stage is about putting armor on. You need to defend against your detractors who are seeing you fail. They are commenting and putting you down. You need to defend yourself constantly. You're deeply burnout and aren't performing properly and people are noticing. The final stage that is rock bottom. You're in crisis and falling apart. You're probably experiencing lots of health problems. >What have you seen that was the precursor to it, what if anything did you or can you do to avoid it? I figure everyone goes through it at least once. You totally can avoid it and get help. If you go looking for help and dont really need it... it's not a bad thing. So what's the risk in trying to get help? >Right now I think I see a general lack of real energy, more stress from the recent economic impacts to our business, being more short tempered, getting sick more often (colds for instance). You have to also realize that perhaps some of these things are just what's going on around you. Might be happening and just coincidentally looking like burnout.