My Story: Overcoming Burnout 3

Let me explain a bit.

I was almost 32 years old, with an extra 10kg, struggling with migraines daily. Besides that, my best friend was killed by her husband at the beginning of 2018; my husband was in Ukraine with his dying father and had no medical help. At my job, nobody believed that was true. For a long time, most of them thought I was simulating burnout.

Every week, I've to attend the meeting at the office with precisely the same set of questions. The problem was that I was spending all my energy on the way to the office (I was going by bike) and had no power to return home anymore. I tried to speak about this with people at the office but was referred to the company doctor, whom I am supposed to visit every month.

So, yes, I was alone without any help.

There was a moment when I got a message from the office that I should come again on Thursday this week. I was standing on the second floor next to the window in my house, and I caught my mind: "No person, no problem."  At that moment, it was so true.  I think cats can read our minds because all three cats came to me at the window when they usually prefer to stay apart from each other. They started yawing; I felt like they were asking how they would survive if I decided to end my life.  I began to cry. 

No one except my cats cares about me... Unbelievable.

"I know it isn't easy, but I have to live, at least for my cats." - was in my head.

I must find a way to overcome this stormy time of my life and recover from burnout.

In next posts I will tell you what did use to get rid of burnout and back to "normal life".