Heading For Burnout?

Struggling with the demands of work, draining relationships, feeling you can’t cope? It’s a common story in our increasingly frenetic world

- Julie Lucas

In 2022, burnout will officially be classed as a disease by the World Health Organisation. It is something burnout coach, Rosie Millen, is all too familiar with. At 30 she was a successful businesswoman, running two companies and enjoying a fast-paced life. But in 2014, things dramatically changed when she collapsed. “I stayed in bed for three months, I couldn’t move, couldn’t talk and at my worst, I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow. I thought I was never going to be me again,” she says. Tests came back normal and Rosie was diagnosed as depressed and given antidepressants. “I burst into tears because I wasn’t depressed at all, I was just completely exhausted.”