“If people get something, especially if you call it a diagnosis, they start Googling. Then they see the intense scenarios. If that gets stuck in your head, then it unconsciously grows in that direction. The complaints don’t necessarily get worse, but your expectations about recovery change. Then you experience more problems, you recognize things and you focus on those complaints. Sometimes I pick out those people, sometimes not. If someone has already decided for themselves, I have a burnout, see Then you just try to take it away. In such a case you try with reassurance, ‘I think it’s not too bad, it’s more like stress.’ The good news is that you can get rid of it.”
Facts and fables about burnout: ‘Don’t think, I’m not going to bother my boss with that’
