![]() ![]() And a lot of us make ourselves busy because we’re trying to avoid so-called negative emotions.” Why is taking a break good for us? Because of the value that is placed on achievement and productivity, some of us are stuck with guilt if we feel like we’re doing nothing, while others keep busy as it feels like the only way to achieve success. When we complete tasks, our brain releases the pleasure hormone dopamine, which makes us feel good,” adds Marshall. “Months of unsureness, death, grief, dislocation, role changes, blurred boundaries, homeschooling, moving home or job, loneliness and a consistent call to navigate change, both internally and externally, mean we’re not just burnt out from work, we’re burnt out from life.”īeing busy has also long been a badge of honour and it’s common that a hectic schedule is the seen as the ultimate sign of success. “So many people have met this prolonged period of uncertainty with either ruthless productivity or stubborn procrastination (often we oscillate between the two) – both can burn us out,” says Chance Marshall, founding partner and creative psychotherapist at Self Space, a mental health service offering different kinds of therapy. When was the last time you took a break? And we’re not talking about the “break” you think you had – the one which saw you busy 70 per cent of the time and glued to a screen the other 30 per cent – but a real break? After dating app Bumble recently gave its 700 person-strong global workforce a week’s break to switch off, focus on themselves and subsequently tackle widespread burnout, many of us nodded our heads with a resounding “yep, we could do with some of that”.
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