Burnout is an intense full-body breakdown from longer-term exhaustion and is linked to “costs of caring.” The term was coined by psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, Ph.D., who defined it as a state of fatigue or frustration caused by devotion or a cause. Vulnerability increases in careers involving human distress, trauma, or grief, and in job settings with communication breakdowns, unrealistic demands, or lower autonomy. Research also shows burnout is more common among dedicated, high-achieving individuals in high-demand jobs. Stress can appear as over-engagement, busyness, and frantic anxious task completion, while burnout involves chronic unmanaged distress with emotional exhaustion, detachment, emptiness, blunted numbness, and lack of relief from work completion.
"Burnout is an intense, full-body breakdown resulting from longer-term exhaustion. The term burnout was coined by Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, Ph.D., who described it as "a state of fatigue or frustration brought about by a devotion or cause." And, as another traumatic stress pioneer, Charles Figley, Ph.D., noted, there are "costs of caring" that deserve our attention."
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