Burnout, Anxiety, and Depression in Healthcare Professionals: When High Achievers Are Running on Empty
Healthcare professionals and advanced practice providers are often seen as resilient, highly skilled, and deeply committed. The intense nature of these positions and the responsibilities involved in navigating them can nurture an environment for burnout, anxiety, or depression – even in the most experienced and devoted of clinicians. But it’s not always easy to recognize when the weight you’re carrying has started to affect you in these ways.
The Emotional Impacts of Trauma on Relationships and Connection
Trauma is often discussed in strings of clinical language that the average layman may not be well acquainted with — symptoms, diagnoses, neurobiological changes, and nervous system impacts. These ways of looking at trauma can be very valuable to educate and validate. But they don’t always paint the clearest emotional picture of what trauma actually feels like to live with.