Hitting Rock Bottom: The Savage Toll of Burnout
by Andrew Wilford

Burnout, nervous breakdown, emotional collapse, mid-life crisis - or whatever you might like to call it - seems to be on the rise in Australian workplaces. Seemingly relentless pressure, high stakes and often higher expectations can take a savage toll on many of us. Why is it that we seem to have no problem applying effective management regimes to maintain complex assets, such as aircraft, ships, power stations or major infrastructure, in order to limit stress and fatigue but we struggle to apply the same philosophies, systems and practices to ourselves?

This is a personal story on how you can use such systems in the human context to build resilience and enhance personal growth, and how, without certain personal maintenance procedures, you can reach the point of breakdown without understanding the warning signs and symptoms.

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