How To Navigate Burnout While Working

This week, BRICKS Contributing Editor Liza Bilal gives a comprehensive guide to navigating burnout while still having to work.

As a young creative, balancing work, personal projects, and the hustle of building a career can often feel overwhelming. Deadlines pile up, creative blocks emerge, and suddenly, what you once enjoyed begins to feel exhausting. You’ve hit burnout — defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Burnout can look like exhaustion or depletion, disassociation from work and other parts of life, and a reduced ability to focus or be productive.  Read below to discover a guide (written from experience) to hopefully help you find strategies to manage burnout without totally sacrificing your mental health or your job.