To think some “burnout” is just people realising they hate their jobs?

Well I thought I was suffering burn out due to my job, turns out I had a massive issue with my bowel that left me unable to hold my poop and pee, sorry TMI.

I honestly thought it was stress of job and having a small child, turns out that it was actually a serious medical issue that requires surgery and extensive time off and hoping to regain function.

I don’t doubt there are many unrealistically high demands put on people but sometimes you may actually have an underlying illness or problem which is highlighted when you dislike the job.

I love my job, I'm a social work manager. But I've been close to burnout 3 times. All times because I simply had too much high risk work to manage and my mind couldn't hold it all and manage the stress. Each time I took some time off and my workload was adjusted, and I was fine. Hating your job isn't the same thing as burnout. Burnout actually comes from caring about the work too much and doing too much.

Whats bought this about op? Is this about you or colleagues? I've only known people to have it in jobs where youd expect it.

For me, its related to the traumatic, horrific and unimaginable day in day out situations that over time becomes harder and harder to “put away in a box”. It layers upon layers until you feel like you are drowning in devastation and human destruction.
There is no break from it, it keeps on coming.

The toughest most resilient colleagues I have had the privilege of working alongside side were struck down eventually.
Love our job, couldn’t do anything else, but the human trauma is extremely difficult to deal with for anyone.

I think often it goes hand in hand with anxiety and perfectionism.

Burnout Syndrome is recognised by the WHO. I am struggling with it currently. Here are real mental and physical changes. I'm reading a book called The Burnout Doctor which is excellent and I'm hoping will help.

It's definitely related. Doing something you hate day in and day out is horrendously demoralising. It will feel more than it is. Time flies when you're having fun, work feels much harder when you're miserable.

I read once that one of the biggest contributers to burnout was being underappreciated at work.

No. I experienced both previously, they are two different things (but hating the job may be a starting/contributing factor). It takes a lot more to suffer a burnout though.

Burnout is being misused by all the people who don't feel able to say they hate their job. Burnout implies they're working so very hard, opinions on that may differ.
Real burnout is a whole different kettle of fish.

It's not that people hate their job. I was a social worker in child protection, high case load and high stress. Burnout is real. It's also very common in social work.

Burnout is caused by long term stress, and you don't need to be in a job you hate, or even a job at all, to experience it.

Hmmm sometimes maybe. But often it’s because their job involves a lot of emotion labour and vicarious trauma. But they still love their job nevertheless and just need more time to recharge perhaps than in other, less traumatic work.