8 Things That Lead To Emotional Exhaustion 

Are you already feeling emotionally exhausted?

There you go: 1:26 high pressure enviroment 2:08 working or studying for hours 2:43 financial stress or poverty 3:17 living with a chronic illness, medical condition, or injury 3:41 perfectionism 4:03 loneliness 4:29 poor self-care 4:55 significant life changes

Mental and emotional disorder causes: School, life, people, existence.

Sometimes we are so emotionally drained that even sleep does not do anything anymore. Most of the time, they are signs of having tried to remain strong for too long. It takes courage and strength to face the world every day 🖖

Im going trough a hard life change, it no longer feels like im living my life, it just feels like im watching somone going trough life. Update: thank you all for the kind words, i feel better now and i wish for all of you to improve aswell :)

To anyone who sees this: keep going! I’m proud you made it this far and let’s keep going. Remember, “you survived 100% of all your bad days.” :)

I should add to that list: saying no to your desires and some needs for no reason.

Me who bingges youtube all day to avoid my emotions: Well thanks for the info *but it can't help me*

For everyone who sees my comment: I don't what you're going through but I wish you all the best for this 2021 to be a good year for your mental health

I have been meditating and doing mindfulness practices since the 90s, and significantly upped the amount of time spent doing so over the last 5 years or so, ramping up to when I lost my job in 2020. Now, months later, I would like to share an interesting observation. I was previously experiencing EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE 8 THINGS, and using meditation to “deal” with them. I got up an hour earlier every day so that I could meditate and get in a “good place’’ for my day. What I was avoiding looking at though is the fact that positive psychology is a COPING MECHANISM. I was misusing meditation as a tactic to convince myself to keep going down a path that was not beneficial for me. Instead of CHANGING things, I was simply trying to convince myself to “reframe” my circumstances. Meditation is a wonderful thing, but it is not a substitute for truth, purpose or genuine fulfillment in life.

"see your doctor, and get medical help." Me, who lives in a country wher mental health is overlooked: hehe sure....

It would be nice if some future videos could be made for people that don’t have friends or family.. most of the content on this channel is tailored to those with others in their lives.. thanks.

Just realizing that ALL 8 things fit to me in the past 3 years makes just so much sense! Everything went down since my mother tried to kill my step-father back when I was 19. I had 3 Jobs + College, was lonely, had depression, didn't care for myself... just everything! It still makes me cry to think of that time now, but I'm doing way better today since I had professional therapy for the last 2 years and constantly trying on doing better! Just so you know, life can get so much better when you start trying it! Baby steps are enough for the beginning, also don't hesitate with trying to get an appointment at a therapist! I tried calling ~30 (the whole list the doctor gave me) and had two promises of an appointment back at the next day! You won't wait the often long expected time you think you have to, just start, you're doing well ☀️

my work environment is definitely making me emotionally exhausted. Today was the first day back at work and school after a week of break and man, I forget how much it could take a toll on me!!

This helps me to understand why I have burnt out in the past, in different times in my life. I wasn't aware that loneliness had an impact as well, which I have also experienced much of my life.

I literally went through this in - a terrible experience in my 9 th class ( now I am in 10th) This emotional exhaustion took a deep turn towards clinical depression and their was no proper help but still continued my daily work falling sick in one of the exams due to excessive stress My parents called me weak , my best friends they tried to help but didn’t exactly want to believe I was going through a lot but when they did in the end they were unable to help but they do try I was suffering for months ..... helpless Now I might hv gone out of clinical depression but there is something I keeps pulling me low

I dont know a lot of english, but i like to hear your voice when im sad, idk what are you saying but your voice make me feel more calm

I was emotionally exhausted when I was starting university, in search for a better life for the future me, I focused all of my attention to the entrepreneur and business news, books, podcasts, it went to the point that I wasn't paying attention to any of my friends, family or even my life itself in search of that "dreamed" life, I lost myself. I didn't wanna make any new friends because I thought they were too "frivolous" or they didn't reached any of my expectations of what I thought was the "succesful" way. I wanted to stay at home all lonely, only there my mind was in peace. All of that changed during quarantine, I started thinking and asking to myself if truly giving up my youth and the pleasure of enjoying life was worth in order to achieve that goal. Now I decided to leave all of that behind, happy with myself, living every day of my life as it was my last day in this planet 💗.

I think I'm emotionally exhausted. I'll try my best to be fine back. Please give me some strength dear Almighty God. I hope everyone will pray for me 🙌🙏💕💕💕 Because I know I'm strong 💪💪❤️😉✨✨

The part about perfectionism hit different, it was spot on

I’m a nurse and can personally attest to this. All I want to do is sleep and cry

Each person is diferrent someones stress more than others for you must make everything with balance also don't wait that all be perfect don't be perfect nobody's perfect

this deserves more views

I'm currently on job hunting and it's so emotionally exhausting. I would fantasies about each job I applied, what life would have become, being excited and happy to finally make a change in my life. But when it's not happening, I would be depressed. The rapid changing are so tiring

Check check check. All of them pretty much. I feel like I'm 62 when I'm only 22 and it sucks but the only way out is through so I'm hanging in there somehow. To anyone else going through the same thing, you're not alone. I honestly hope you're able to find extraordinary joy soon and till then, as a very resilient fictional fish once said, let's just keep swimming lol 💪 💪

4 points - working long hours, perfectionism, poor self care, and big life changes. I have trouble letting go of work thoughts after hours because I'm worried about my mid-year review/being let go. I thought I had good job security as a software engineer but turns out that's not been the case. I'm a raging perfectionist; still working on that. Inability for good self-care because my roommate's father has been living with us for 2 months. I'm also moving this month. No wonder I'm exhausted.

Have emotional exhaustion during this pandemic when I have to stress about my income source. Keep working hard.

i literally have not got over my breakup from 2019. it’s crazy because he asked me out on social media and broke up with me on social media (i know him irl) and then he went on and dated other girls - so many girls too. it’s just really heartbreaking, i hate this feeling.

Just love your little channel, and I LOVD your speaking style and voice ❣ Soothing. 🥰

I’m emotionally exhausted, but don’t have a job. I just have mental health problems that I’m desperately trying to cope with

I have cared for my son for over 30 years and I have recently put him into adult residence. I am burnt out , mentally overwhelmed . Emotional exhausted . Xx Carers are dealing with unreasonable unrealistic placed excessive pressure and stress . We can become and are super exhausted . Don't forget about me . X

I want to cry. I have thought about suicide but my morals in God have kept me here. I'm in highschool and my world is spiraling out of control. I'm going to get a eating disorder soon if I don't start eating but I still can't I'm obsessed with my body. And I have social anxiety and OCD and my parents are forcing me to socialize with people I don't feel comfortable around. I can't control my thoughts and I feel like I just need to freeze in time and just stop all the crazy. I needed to vent thought this channel was a good place to do it.

When I feel bad, I like to feed my sadness with sad songs. So that I can smile when I dealing with some new traumatic memories or other problems. My new favourite sad song is To Everyone Who Want To Die by Takayan.

I’ve been subscribed for a few years, and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate how your videos are straight to the point without rambling :) Thank you

Considering the last 12 months, I think it's safe to say that pretty much everyone has experienced sudden life changes and may have even been one of the many who lost someone. This last year has been filled to the brim with trauma and a lot of people seem to go out of their way to spread that trauma to others. There are some of us, who want you (yes, YOU) to be able to properly heal from all of this. If only you knew how truly amazing you actually are, and I mean that. Because if you're reading this, that means that you're still hanging on, no matter how painful that might be for you. You're still here and that is all that I can ask for. You can overcome this, you will overcome this and I know you will. Because that's what you humans do. You overcome adversity and you find the unique you in the process. Even if you have no faith in yourself or your own capability to do it. I know you can because you are human. There is no depth of words I could ever use that would truly illuminate just how powerful you are. So even if you don't believe in yourself, I believe in you.

I found out that I can hop out my window on the second floor and just sit on the roof whilst I vent my troubles to discord It helps me relive stress

Psych2Go: Teachers are more at risk from burnout/emotional exhaustion Me, who is still working to be a teacher: Oh damn

I'm sick of telling myself that I'm not weak ,I can get through this But the truth inside is something no one know except me I'm tired of all the things around me , being used to it made me something I'm not , I don't have any complaint with anyone even after all that and neither I have any hope I'm tired 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 😔

I just moved, strated a new job, and strated school all in the past few months 😁 I've definitely felt some of these symptoms, but like you said mindfulness had helped , reading, praying, and self care also really help!

I'm not a member, but wanted to "time travel" like the trend! Did I do it right..?

I work in a fast food restaurant so I work under A LOT of pressure. I've been working for a whole year and I have burned out 6 months ago but kept working until it lead me to emotional exhaustion, huge anxiety and depression, so I decided to quit finally my job. This is my last week, so I'm really happy and wishing this week to end

I can really relate to the feelings of emotional exhaustion from perfectionism and chronic illness. It's just kinda "always there" - either lurking in the background or everything's fine 'til there's a big project (perfection) or a medical emergency (illness). It also involves just feeling "bad" on many days from it. Just from either not wanting to screw up or having slight pain/feeling unwell (also emotionally) so that you don't manage to have as much fun with your hobbies as you used to. It's even worse when a depression is part of it. You have negative or numb feelings all of a sudden and you can't even totally explain why and it's driving you crazy. Thanks for mentioning/covering this!

Working in a call center for a company everyone hated. I haven't been there in a year and I'm still healing.

Finally I got some reasons for all of this mess, thanks a lot!!! You don't imagine how good i feel after getting this clarity of the time i wasted after studying excellently for over 3 years Ps :- Now I am setback from my edu goals and probably depressed since lockdown. But this just gave me tons of clarity towards it and now I can prevent this in future probably

emotional exhaustion is a topic that I definitely want to learn more about! feel like it's not talked about enough!

Omg i knew there was term! I explained to my friend my worries of feeling lost, lonely, quiting a job that over worked me physically and mentally, but over all I felt burnt out from wanting to help people. I dont want it to sound bad, but I've always been a person who puts other first. But like I've been thinking what about me and I feel like my career has come to a halt because of this pandemic. There were certain points I did relate to this video. I'm trying to stay strong for my family, for myself. There are dark moments but I'm thankful that I can find content that reminds me that there is a purpose to not feel lonely and keep moving forward.

My friends and family: say I'm super smart since like, the day I was born. Me: watches educational videos and over studies because I don't want to disappoint them and causing myself emotional burn out.

I’ve been feeling so emotionally exhausted lately, this was a good time to see this video.

Point 4 not only counts for those who have chronic illnesses, but those who live with others with chronic illnesses. I’m speaking from experience since my mom has a chronic illness that is somewhat similar to M.S. (Her condition is called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or ME for short). She definitely does experience emotional burnout from time to time, and when she overdoes herself and has a bad crash, my dad and I have to take care of her and my brother who is on the autism spectrum. This impacts our mental health to the point of emotional burnout too.

Thank you for making these videos as it relaxes me watching these videos. It takes my mind of all my worries when I hear sombody talking about stuff, as I am suffering from anxiety and stress 24/7 and has gotten acid reflux from it and may come to the point of medication for anxiety or congal therapy idk how to spell it but that's the path I'm close to going to..

I noticed too that if you are underappreciated. It adds too the exhaustion.

My entire childhood was a high pressure enviroment

My loneliness is killing me i feel exhausted everyday I lost interest in making videos i used to do it to be happier My dad has high expectations from me

I don't feel lonely because I know I have people I can reach out to but I definitely feel about 7 of your 8 signs though. Even more so with the last 3 years I would say pre-Covid. I feel it more with constant life, relationship, job, society changes. It feels like the world isn't steady anymore. There's no consistency we are all walking and crushing eggshells at this point. If you have survived through the pandemic it is true grace and a miracle I feel. Thank you for the advice and tips you are keeping me steady on the right path. Faith in God over Fear. And staying healthy and avoiding all dangerous temptations. Following directions trusting your life experiences. That's the best way through this situation.

I am drained on every level from life. Financial, relational, work, and life stress is absolutely killing me. I haven't slept more than 4 hours at a time in weeks. Im barely hanging on mentally with my depression and anxiety.

The perfectionism part hits man😫

I related to all 8 signs of emotional exhaustion, but my therapist just suggested I get out of bed when I'm sad

Hi guys..I’m, this is my first comment ever on RU-vid. I felt like it was important to share this. I was burnt out in a way that wasn’t seen as an outcome to my downfall, I had moved into an apartment with my boyfriend last June (it was supposed to be a test run for me, to see how I would like living on my own) It ended with me moving out 6months before the lease was up. My boyfriend, now Ex, and our roommate (who I barely knew to begin with) would argue with me on everything, I ended up shutting down entirely for four long months and didn’t have the strength to speak up or stand up for myself anymore. I got no reassurance, comfort, or encouragement on anything...just too much physical contact. My ex would throw my mistakes I made of 3+ years prior in my face like it had just happened yesterday. He would cut me off, shut me down, and shut me up. I was demanded to do things that violated my personal space, I was almost financially broke bc I was the only one buying all the food and paying my portion of bills on top of that. I felt lonely in the end and left out. I was abused in every way but physically in 6 months by my ex, and the worst part about it....he denies all of it...and pins the blame on me, So that he looks like the hero in the end. He never defended me on anything or backed me up in any way. I distanced myself from them, I felt broken and empty. I fear he’s added onto and caused more PTSD in my mind. (I have been diagnosed by a professional that i do have PTSD, Chronic.) I cry most days realizing what he did, or I’ll randomly shut down and hug one of my friends bc I’m scared, I flinch and get startled very easily bc of my ex (he’d fake hit me to get a reaction out of me). He told me to stop being so dramatic while I was depressed.... he was just so awful in my eyes, he’d grab and grope me every day even when I showed clear signs I didn’t want to be handled that way. He never listened to me....even when I did express my problems; he (and my roommate plus his girl) would make my problems worse by forcefully helping in a way that only helped them and in the end, was actually hurting me. I’m still frightened and emotionally drained from it as it just recently happened just a few days before Christmas 2020. I’m in a safe environment now surrounded by family members and friends that care. I feel free and I’ve cried in tears of joy because I’m free now from it.. even though it’s caused a lot of damage to my mental health, my therapist is helping me work through it all right now and I have a “therapy companion” I saved from outside, who’s helping me feel safe and loved as well. I hope those of you who have had major and minor burnouts recover quickly and healthily.

I want you to know without a doubt that you have hit every subject right, I know it’s an especially this one so I just wanna thank you for your help it’s very much appreciated and I am in therapy to.

"Are you feeling emotional burnout?" Everyone: 2020😝

Yeah basically all of them. I'm even a teacher as well.

where was this when I was twelve? Middle school burned me out and I shut down to the point it took my Dad to come on a bring your Dad to school day to show how bad my Special Ed teacher stressed us all out. Finally got out of that place and was home school until I graduated HS in 2013.

Loneliness , toxic family relationships and not being understood is really tough to deal and when your close one have a really big expectations about you and he is potential narcist you just really feel the term burnout . I hope we will all get better friends

Oh crap No wonder I'm so tired Or it could just be the fact that its 3:00 AM

It's crazy how many of these I can relate to. Especially since I just thought I was tired and stuff.

I had this bad and was hospitalized for a watch period. This was when I first was diagnosed with my depression and anxiety issues. I don’t get the burned out as often but I now know to find ways to recenter.

i recently went through a breakup, and being an introvert, i was all-dependent on her. after she left, she had easily replaced me with someone else, but i went into a deep pit of depression, because i was all alone in a new city without anyone to call my own. as the days are going by, i feel myself more and more depressed and emotionally drained. affecting my work, and many other aspects in my life. i miss my old days, and hate my present life. it's a living hell. and im not able to come out of it.

I just don’t want to be so tired anymore.

Sadly. I related with a good 4 put of the 7. It definitely causes me to overeat and neglect my responsibilities and hobbies. It makes them more of a burden, than a fun thing to do. Also, I put off schoolwork for simple fun to destress, bc the more i think about all the issues i have to fix and face the more i ignore them. My parents also dont believe what I believe, and I couldn't have a full conversation on why I am the way I am. So, I distance myself. I say I'll find friends who'll understand me in high school, but Corona made that extremely hard, cause there is no physical school. And my other friends, I got too anxious about and I didn't understand so I distanced my self from them. I get them now, but I've lost thier numbers. I could maybe find some on my mom's phone, but I dont think I dont know if I should. Ok, dang. That was a rant

I'm curently studing in q school that prepare you for engineer school, called "PREPA" in France, I don't know how to explain that but let's say it's one of the hardest thing that you can find in France, and I got something similar to a burnout in October due to the pressure, the fact that we have 40h of hour lesson per week (+ 2-3 of Oral exam per week and 4 hour of written exam every Saturday), I totaly negliged myself for two months, by never taking time for me, skipping meals and don't sleep a lot, I think I never been emotionally exhausted in my whole life, It was horrible Thanks you for your videos it's support me a lot

Hi! Y'all are very awesome and trust me your tips and tricks and amazing. My brother was suffering from depression. He is fine now just because of your tips. Thank you so much for this, I love your videos. Love from India 😍😍

I had mild depression at 15, chronic painful skin condition for 13+ years, my younger brother died in he sleep Feb 2020, been single all my life despite wanting to be married by 23, full-time job and side tech business (not doing well enough yet after 2+ years), taking care of my mother, etc. I’m exhausted.

All of these signs, literally all of them are relatable !

You can definitely get emotionally exhausted from helping others for a long period of time or trying to emotionally support lots of others

I can definitely relate to loneliness and financial stress if not possibly poor self care, and high pressure environments when I had school and work... :(

Great! I wish I saw these videos 40 years ago! Some people said I was just "lazy"!

I am feeling this. My mother passed away in September of last year and my father died last month. I am also teaching overseas so I haven't seen my family for almost 2 years. Lately I have been feeling this way

School: forces students and teachers to work for eight hrs The video: Working for long periods of time can cause emotional burnout Board of Education: Imma ignore that

I don’t feel like I’ve ever been this exhausted in my life. I’m only 28 but I left an abusive relationship about a year ago, and now I’m facing a cancer scare. I’m mentally and physically exhausted 😢

I came into this video thinking I would have emotional exhaustion, but it turns out I’m ok! Thank you!

Yup emotionall exhuastion isnt easy guys I usually get burned out by loneliyness and trying to cover it up with work Thinking i will make better money n build more significant relationships Truth is its just a hard habbit of years N its doing no good When im seriously emotionally tired i turn to alcohol due to the high levels of stress n emptyness You guys are doing awesome vids Keep it up! It deffiantly help me Thanks n good night 🙏🤝👍

I’m having major life changes, and I’m still a teenager which is messing with my future. I’m going back to my country because my dad is sending me back to my mum. I still have to go to school because I’m 16 (soon 17) but in my country the education system is different to England and it would be harder. Also the course I’m doing right now is not near the area my mum lives, it’s on the other side of the country, so I have to find an alternative. Fortunately, my mum and I have always been able to work stuff out and we get along so much better than my dad and I, so I’m hoping it’ll get better. Sorry this is so long, but if you read this, thank you, and I wish you all the best too!

Drained or stressed; and it is the same deadly feeling! You reach that point of kinda your life is about ending... and the demons playing evil inside you..I don't know!

I really wish I could see a doctor, but I'm still a 'kid' and I'm afraid of telling my parents I need to see someone that could help me. Also that 'lonly' part hit hard. I have 'friends' but I feel like there are only here for my grades and to get help from me. But when I need help, they literally make no effort and their only excuse is 'But you are clever, do it yourself!'. So I have no idea if I should concider them as friends or just random people in my class.

I already knew I’m pretty emotionally burnt out, the last four years of my life have been jam packed with unfortunate circumstances and change. I’m not really myself much anymore, I don’t have time to and also losing the motivation along with the people I had been close to. I’m doing everything I can and keep facing hardships. It’s extremely depressing, but I don’t know what else to do but keep living, and going on fumes...

[September 1st, 2021] It’s been 8 months since I’ve been giving my all, pouring all of my effort and energy, time and money into self-investment. This road which I’m taking sure is lonely. I haven’t lost my friends considering I didn’t have a close one to begin with, but those people that I met are still considered as my friends (even though I’m always left behind). No one understands me, maybe it’s because I’m too different from other. Forget what I just said, let get to the point. I hate myself for not being happy with my own progression. I spend so much time on studying that I lose most of the necessary time for self-love, self-care, keeping connections and more. I’ve spent so much time on self-investment like studying, building habits, working out really hard that I forget of my limitation numeral times. I want to change, but I have very scarce options.

a day after i was born, my mom gave me away to my grandmother and left for America on a student visa later on. grew up living with my grandmother, i didn’t realize anything was different until i started growing older. i always struggled trying to understand myself. i’ve met my dad twice before. i know he doesn’t care about me. but i’m okay with that. i assume i’m a lot like him cause i’m definitely now like anyone else. i don’t fit in. over the past few years i’ve felt immense pressure to be someone i’m not. it’s really taking a toll on me, i’m not too good at maths and although i’ve been a near perfect student, my family always insults me for failing maths and doesn’t recognize my attempts at other subjects. i’m 17 now, done with highschool. over the past few years i was told that my mom planned to have me aborted. whenever my grandmother is angry, she tells me about how much of a favor she’s done by taking me in. “you’d be in a children’s home if it wasn’t for me”. that hurts me more than all the times she’s held a knife to my chest and thrown objects at me and threatened me with pans and pots. my childhood was ruined by my family. but it didn’t just stop there. over the past few years my mom has been trying to form a better relationship with me. i won’t go too deep into that because you can only imagine how that makes me feel. i don’t know if you’ll read all this but if you do, i hope you know that both me and you will get better. i love you and i’m always here if you need to talk.

Dear Psych2Go Team - Happy New Year! - Thank you for all of your hard work and efforts, the content you produce here is so valuable. The videos are created with so much thought and care and I love the animation. Wishing you all the very best for 2021 and beyond! :-)

Checklisting myself 1. High Pressure Environment Yes people do have high expectations on me, half of them comes from me pressuring myself too 2. Working or Studying for hours I mean it's normal school or 6 hours plus some homeworks and projects, but that itself already stresses me out. 3. Financial stress or poverty Thankfully, this one is safely off the list. 4. Living with a chronic illness, medical condition, or injury I have no physical injury, but I suspect myself having some mental condition signs. 5. Perfection I used to, not I hate it more that anything. 6. Loneliness Yes, very. I tried to chat my friends (still in quarantine) but none responded. 7. Poor self-care Kinda...? 8. Significant life changes Covid-19 Quarantine.

Super relatable content.

I can relate to 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. Plus I was bullied during my school years.

I wonder when I can get out of my exhaustion 😪 Aa always, Thank you for the amazing video 💜

While watching this, I cry for no reason I don't know recently I want to be alone but I can't. Because I need to help my parents for their business like I'm a cashier where I need to smile at my customers. Also, I can't take a rest properly since I have siblings and I'm older to them and need to take responsibility in everything in our house. Now, I'm getting sick, I feel stress since my body is not the same as before(im not healthy anymore) TT well I can't tell this to my parents, we don't have money for check-up my health. And they going to tell me that "I'm not doing anything!" HOW??! IM BUSY TAKING RESPONSIBILITY IN EVERYTHING IM TRIED!!! ALSO SCHOOL AAAAAAA... thanks for this video, I will solve this if not maybe I'm dead already.

You forgot caregiver stress. I have burnout and emotional exhaustion from caregiver stress. Both my kids have chronic severe health problems. I rarely get a full nights sleep because I have to get up and deal with medical emergencies at all hours. Managing their doctors appointments, medications, therapies, insurance, etc is a full time job. I have a very small social support network and I am constantly worried about how I am going to pay for their care. Mindfulness does help.

8 out of 8, this is going to be much harder to fix than I was hoping. Well it has been like 20 years of being emotionally exhausted and only now learning what that even is...

to the people in comments : STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME CRY, YOU GUYS ARE TOO KIND

Can you maybe do a video about the difference between having High Functioning Depression and emotional exhaustion? Because a lot of the symptoms are the same.

I had all.these. and I.just completely shut down and ceased all.of anything. Its been peaceful.

thank you so much for sharing this 💕 I just realized that keeping everything perfect is tiring, and by the end of this year I feel like I was too uptight to myself sometime to keep my routine on track and to chase a high goal that I set. I think I need to be more loose and not too intense this year 😃

I'm living with chronic pain in my neck, back and right arm and it's so frustrating when I want go to do fun things. I can't enjoy myself doing activities such taking long walks, seeing a show without discomfort. Life is hard 🙁