This month marks the third year Canadians have been living with the COVID-19 pandemic, and people are continuing to grapple with feelings of burn out in one way or another.

 

Burn out is a syndrome that is characterized by emotional exhaustion and lack of self-fulfillment caused by being in mentally-draining environments, which in turn can lead to reduced productivity.

 

Marian Goldstone with the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba says two-thirds of employees that are working from home are experiencing burn out due to disruptions to their routines and schedules, in addition to not being able to predict what’s likely to come.

 

Goldstone elaborates that parental burnout in particular has increased. She says 855, 000 women, many of them with kids, dropped out of the workforce over the course of the pandemic so far.

 

To learn more about the impacts of burnout and how to manage it, tune in to Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.