Humans can burnout. Humans aren’t candles but they can definitely burnout emotionally and physically. Many researchers and mental health experts have dedicated their life’s work treating burnout and helping people to recover. It’s still more socially acceptable to say your are “burnt out than to say you are depressed”. I am often asked how burnout and High Functioning depression (HFD) differ. Burnout by definition is a workplace phenomenon. The workplace causes the symptoms of low motivation, fa