Do you often find yourself emotionally depleted, detached, resentful, helpless or uninterested in life? You may be suffering from emotional exhaustion and burnout. The good news is that feeling this way is not a sign of weakness; it’s a sign that something needs to change in order to prevent those symptoms from building up and contributing to serious and complex medical conditions.
Emotional exhaustion is not a mental condition you need to endure long-term. It can be managed with various therapies and coping strategies aimed at eliminating the source of your exhaustion, making lifestyle modifications and reconnecting with purpose. We can help you regain the balance you’ve lost.
Limbic Flow brings together Australia’s best therapists and evidence-based treatment practices to help mentally exhausted individuals. Make the most of our unique recovery approach and get back to enjoying life!
Stop neglecting your needs
You can’t drive yourself to the point of emotional depletion or burnout overnight. Behind this condition is continuous negligence in attending to one’s personal needs. Most likely, you’ve been leaving your own cup empty to prioritise the needs of others at work, home or elsewhere for many years.
As a result, you may feel as if you’re:
- Constantly stressed out
- Powerless
- Dissatisfied
- Irritable
- Apathetic
You may be grasping at straws some days and find yourself depressed and hopeless other days. On top of that, you may be suffering from a range of physical fatigue symptoms that can also aggravate your overall mental health conditions.
If anything of this rings a bell, it’s important to realise you have your own needs and start putting your well-being first. This idea is the backbone of all emotional burnout recovery strategies and must be embraced by patients at the earliest treatment stages. If you’re clueless about how to do that, we are here to guide you.
Emotional burnout treatment options
At Limbic Flow, you can expect personalised support from our Client Success Partner and qualified therapists to manage your burnout or emotional exhaustion. We’ll help you arrange your treatment sessions and maximise results using one or a combination of the most successful therapeutic approaches.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
What you think about stressors and how you behave in your daily life can exacerbate your emotional fatigue. CBT can be incredibly effective for identifying burnout-related thought patterns like perfectionism and getting patients to adopt behavioural changes like scheduling rest.
This treatment modality will draw your attention to the daily modifications that can help you cope with mental exhaustion and prevent things that surround you from taking their toll on your well-being.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
This form of treatment for the mentally and emotionally exhausted teaches you to take stock of and accept your fatigue, disappointment, apathy and other negative feelings. It also fosters committed action towards your life’s values and encourages you to stop disregarding your needs.
With ACT, you will learn to avoid overreacting to stressors and resisting your emotions while leading a purposeful life.
Mindfulness practices
Mindfulness is a great complementary technique to combat emotional exhaustion. It introduces an extra mental layer between you and burnout-related factors and symptoms while helping you develop a sense of groundedness when you feel stressed out or depleted.
Mindfulness practices are varied and should be selected on an individual basis. Your therapy may include conscious breathing, mindful walking, meditation or journaling.
Lifestyle adjustments
The source of burnout is the most important thing that needs to be addressed, and sometimes, the source is not easily identified or accepted. You are the expert of your life, but our therapist can guide you to identify the source of these stressors and assist you in making decisions on how to prioritise or modify certain aspects of your life to eliminate or manage these stressors.
Often, these lifestyle changes will require other’s support and participation. Our therapist can also advise you on how to communicate with the people in your life in order to make these transitions smoother.
Everyone can recover from mental exhaustion
Being emotionally worn out is not a dead end. Connect with Limbic Flow to take advantage of evidence-based clinical best practices and care provided by Australia’s renowned therapists. We’ll help you restore control, vitality and happiness by properly responding to factors that lead to your emotional depletion.