Is anyone else just burnt out and exhausted

[Lurcherloves]

Or is it just me. I’m so exhausted at starting to feel low and I have so many good things in my life. I’ve worked relentlessly through the pandemic with an increased workload and have felt overwhelmed for the last year. I can’t take anymore. If I take time off it will just be worse when I get back. Anyone else had this experience of the pandemic? I’m sure nurses and doctors feel this way. I also feel resentful to people who’ve had the year off at the public expense. I know that’s unfair but I’m so tired and fed up.

I'm glad noone is telling you that you must have some health problem as it's not normal to feel so tired as I did on another thread after saying I'm knackered juggling a job and kids and life!

@lavenderandwisteria

No it isn’t. A similar comment about benefits claimants would be flamed and rightly so.

Totally!

And really OP how can you say you’ve had it as bad as doctors and nurses who’ve been on the front line dealing with death on a daily basis?

@BiscoffAddict

Was there any need for the dig about people who were on furlough? I was furloughed but certainly didn’t ‘have a year off’. Plus many of the people who were really struggled financially and have had to make huge sacrifices. I’m afraid you lost any sympathy with that comment. How dare you.

Many people who've worked throughout have struggled financially too. My salary halved but the workload doubled. Double kick in the bollocks.

@lavenderandwisteria

What would you rather had happened to the people who had a ‘year off at public expense’?

Oh do frig off!

I take it that means they should have had their homes repossessed

Me too.
Work load doubled, pay halved, I've only really taken bank Holidays off since March 2020. Bone tired.

I know it isn't encouraged to bring up past threads, but did you address your situation of no admin backup and a piss taking boss? You need to change jobs, or challenge your works expectations. This job is killing you.

I am WFH (14 months now) and I still feel exhausted - it's the emotional toll not the physical one for me (although I am feeling the effect of not moving around so much - everything is done in front of a screen instead of going to different rooms for meetings etc).

I have had time off - 2 weeks at Christmas & 2 around Easter, but because I couldn't really do anything it just felt like same old, same old. I needed the time and am glad I took it but I didn't feel refreshed at all.
It doesn't help that I don't enjoy my job.
I could moan for hours...but I won't.

I'm exhausted. Mental health nurse, I'm burnt out. No enjoyment from life at all

@BiscoffAddict bit of an overreaction on your part.

@Trytrytryasimight

Me too. Work load doubled, pay halved, I've only really taken bank Holidays off since March 2020. Bone tired.

Yes exactly employers are taking advantage of the situation and the general insecurity.

@bellalou1234

I'm exhausted. Mental health nurse, I'm burnt out. No enjoyment from life at all

With no end in sight for you I bet 💐

Yes, I’m completely knackered. So is everyone where I work- I’ve never known anything like these levels of burnout.

However, I think I would feel even worse if I’d been furloughed: the stress and anxiety of not knowing whether I’d have a job when furlough came to an end, and not having anything to structure and occupy my days, would have completely done for me. I found the weekends really hard during the lockdown.

Yeah, I feel the same way OP. Just want to retire now. At the start of Covid I was ready to leave the NHS (after 32years) but I said last March on here that I would stick it out and I have. Got moved to a covid facing role and this time last year saw the first of my colleagues die. Telling the patients that "I will be your DD for now" but knowing that they would never see them again.
Its been horrendous for everyone, its not really helpful to start comparing who had it worse, (I personally believe that to be the parents of some special needs/ASD children, forced to cope with no school provision, I just can't imagine).
I have no resentment towards people on furlough, they needed to stay home. What annoys me though are the many social services SWs and OTs who were furloughed but have now reinvented their reality and happily accept the thanks of the public and the supermarket discounts, and the hospital chaplaincy teams who abandoned us.
I struggle with that.
Oh and the threads on here, bashing nurses. They've stopped now but a few months back there was thread after thread. I suspected it was some Tory media bot in the end.
I hope you can find some time for yourself OP. I am going to the coast tomorrow viewing a house to retire to.

@Ponoka7 there is new admin staff starting in June and I have been trying to reduce my workload so hope things will improve!

The physical and emotional toll on most people has been devastating. The OP acknowledged initially that any resentment she felt for furloughed employees was unreasonable and that she realised their jobs were uncertain and their prospects worrying.

We're almost all exhausted and on the edge.

I feel exactly the same OP. No furlough here....I've worked my arse doing my job and that of furloughed colleagues. Its totally OK to be resentful of those on furlough. Not all of them were furloughed because they they were vulnerable. I'm absolutely knackered.

I think more often than not it's how management have handled the furlough scheme and distribution of work , not the fact people have been furloughed. I'm happy I wasn't furloughed as I would have lost my way, but we have been given extra days off. Distribution of work has been haphazard though.

I’ve worked throughout, no time off at all, and had extra work. My job is still not particularly secure, and that’s worrying.
I don’t begrudge people told to furlough, but I found it difficult when a friend told me she’d really enjoyed her many months off, and had used the time to redecorate her house, sort her garden out and then spend time relaxing in it.
She had no insight as to how things have been for people who’ve carried on with no break at all and are now exhausted.
Appreciate not everyone is like her though.

@Sloth66 yes exactly that I know it hasn’t been like that for everyone but some people have benefited from it.

Yes. I had Covid in January and have PND and anxiety; I’ve been signed off work sick since February and it’s only with taking sertraline and having therapy that I’ve started to improve. But I’ve still got very low energy levels and very little “get up and go”.

I also have an autoimmune disease, which definitely does not help.

I'm also exhausted. I'm a single mum wfh FT and I can't take any more of the being responsible for absolutely everything at home whilst working longer hours than I'm paid for. It's relentless. I want a break from everything. I've always worked hard and worked long hours but I've never felt so drained.

Yes I feel similarly. I have worked throughout in a high responsibility public sector role (well, two roles as I changed job). I’m also single parent to two kids, 12 and 7 and had covid last year, with some fatigue still following me around.

What would you rather had happened to the people who had a ‘year off at public expense’?

^^
Nothing! It makes logical sense for this to have happened, but people can’t help feeling resentful. They probably wouldn’t vocalise it in RL, but the feel of unfairness might still be there.

Oh and my ex decided to have building works throughout the second lockdown, which meant that he apparently couldn’t have the children to stay at all for three months.