The term "burnout" has been a buzz word lately. So many of us have lived through the interconnection between work, physical health, and mental health. But what is burnout, how does it present, and what can we do about it?
Soul Exhaustion: Going Beyond the Brain in Our Understanding of Suicide Intensity and the Overcoming of It
There is an element of humanity that is struggling with and ultimately often excluded from conversations about mental health in general and suicide more specifically. That element is spirituality, which may or may not be directly related to religion. Spirituality is difficult to measure and cannot be prescribed and yet for the span of modern human beings it has been a staple in understanding grief, surviving trauma and counteracting the hopelessness that we know fuels despair and suicidal intensity.