by Anonymous | 6th Apr 2021 | Stress and Burnout, The Covid Diaries
It isn’t called a sinking feeling for nothing. It feels like you’re in a lift, plummeting down the outside of a skyscraper, out of control, hurtling towards the inevitable. Your stomach is like a washing machine on fast spin, and the dread, deep in your...
by Anonymous | 9th Feb 2021 | Clinician Stories, Stress and Burnout
Flicking idly through a glossy, fashion magazine a headline grabs my attention: “A band-aid for bullet wounds: is the self-care craze doing more harm than good?” I am intrigued, partly because I am facing my own conundrums in a work context about whose responsibility...
by Anonymous | 17th Mar 2020 | Culture, Stress and Burnout
They were talking. I knew that because I could see their mouths moving. Their heads, their faces animated. My eyes told me information that my ears and my brain were not able to take in. How could they talk, continue to communicate, carry on as if the world had not...
by Anonymous | 18th Feb 2020 | Patient Stories, Stress and Burnout
That Autumn had been the wettest since forever. Not that we knew that then, the statistics come out months after the lived experience, but I remember every day resulted in a drenching. Having to hang up the raincoat and the pram cover over the bath and dry the wheels...
by Anonymous | 5th Nov 2019 | Culture, Stress and Burnout
“One runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.” Joan Didion. Stress, burnout, moral injury. These are words that occupy time and space in much of what we read at the moment. Whilst there appears to be an epidemic of workplace distress in every...
