Do You Have Any of These 5 Early Signs of Mental Burnout?

And how to prevent overload before it is too late

Do you have so many obligations to keep up with?

But have very little time, although you are the master of time management.

Work, side hustle, family, friends, working on your body, and at least two-three different hobbies to broaden your skillset.

And all of them have to be visited on a weekly or even daily basis. Otherwise, your best friend might show up, the guilt feeling. Fear of missing out.

Have you ever thought maybe not that you are lazy or cannot manage your time, but you simply overload yourself with unnecessary responsibilities?

Here are the five early signs of you are overloading yourself:

1. You feel extremely guilty when performing unproductive tasks

Do not sell your life short for the euphoric sense of accomplishment

We all feel very good when we tick off something on our list. That sense of accomplishment (usually lasts a couple of minutes), can be quite addictive because of its short life span.

We tick off; feel good, then normalize the feeling and want to feel again. Like drug addiction. Except, this euphoric sense is not coming from a substance.

So unavoidably we ask “What’s next?”

After fulfilling our primary needs, we fill all of our time with tasks that serve our ultimate goals. This makes us feel like working non-stop, not in the context of working in a job but working in life.

Working for your body, working for your financials, and working for your social satisfactions.

Being the employee of your own life, throughout of your life.

Is this really the life you want to have?

2. You have difficulty falling asleep despite being tired

Sleep is a biological need that you cannot afford to neglect

We have to know how to control our minds. Our thinking patterns, triggers, defense mechanisms, and worries.

Causes of worries are everywhere. We cannot escape from them. But it is our free choice that how to respond.

If we allow ourselves to get lost in those worries, dramatizing might turn into a habit.

And once something turns into a habit, it might appear even when there is no catalyzer.

Just like getting worried while lying in our beds, when there is no physical threat.

We should not allow worries to take the lead of our lives. Interrupting our sleep without our permission. Holding us back from meeting the most basic need of a human being.

3. You have memory problems and poor judgment

You need a clear mind to make right decisions

When you have too many things to accomplish, you will end up accomplishing nothing at all.

You will start to mix up things, which will eat up your so-called precious time.

As I don't believe, time should call as precious, because time is just time.

Or even worse, you may make poor decisions, which might jeopardize your well being.

Because you forget things during busy daytime, at night, when you finally find serenity, all those things you forget might come up to your mind.

No doubt, you will have difficulty falling asleep because of those tasks forgotten.

4. Your ability to concentrate is getting worse

If you do not concentrate, you will never perceive; if you cannot perceive, you will never remember

Here is the vicious cycle:

Just because you have a lot on your plate, you cannot clear your mind and fully concentrate on the thing in your hand.

Because you cannot concentrate, you never perceive.

And you will never remember a thing you haven't even perceived in the first place.

Here is why we don't remember, here is why we have memory issues.

It's not just about aging, but also about the speed of life.

5. You take things too seriously or personally

Some things are just out of your control, accept it

Not every achievement of your life fully belongs to you, neither every failure.

We are social creatures, and our social and economic situations are affected by the people close to us.

Being socially happy means, you have good friends and family.

Being economically free means you have the right network to run your business.

Surely consistent progress is essential.

But the point is that not everything is in our control.

Some things are just out of our control, and the best way to cope with this is just to accept it.

There are some things like building a fit body, which there are lesser external factors involved. Because it mainly depends on your eating habits and exercise routine. Means depends on you.

So those things are easier to control.

So just focus on what you can control. And accept the rest.

Don't take things too seriously or personally.

Life is just life.