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Ashamed to stay home with burnout (31yo M)

Hi all, after over 2 years of working myself to death, being severely burnt out and seeing a psychologist for it, I have finally decided to go to the doctors’ and stay home for a while. Ever since the pandemic I’ve been grinding non-stop, without taking time off except for taking care of my daughter… I work as a marketing designer for a consultancy firm, but my boss also started a new firm for which I at first also had to work occasionally. In the meantime I’m expected to work for both firms 50/50, but the workload is so immense it feels like two full times cramped into one. I’ve asked several times to work for just one of both firms, because the combination is unbearable, to which I always get the answer they don’t have enough budget at either firm to take me on fulltime… I feel like I…


Hi all, after over 2 years of working myself to death, being severely burnt out and seeing a psychologist for it, I have finally decided to go to the doctors’ and stay home for a while. Ever since the pandemic I’ve been grinding non-stop, without taking time off except for taking care of my daughter… I work as a marketing designer for a consultancy firm, but my boss also started a new firm for which I at first also had to work occasionally. In the meantime I’m expected to work for both firms 50/50, but the workload is so immense it feels like two full times cramped into one. I’ve asked several times to work for just one of both firms, because the combination is unbearable, to which I always get the answer they don’t have enough budget at either firm to take me on fulltime… I feel like I don’t have a future with either of them and the only ones profiting from this situation are them… So, finally I’ve decided enough is enough and I’m visiting the doctors’ tonight, but now I’m feeling horribly guilty towards my employer, even though I realise I need to take care of myself. If not for me, definitely for my family, as I’m realising I’m just a shade of who I used to be and my daughter isn’t growing up with the real me…

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