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Addiction and Burnout: Feather, Brick, and Motherf'cking Dump Truck Moments

The Burnout Series // Deep Fix №2

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Alex Olshonsky
Apr 02, 2021
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The link between addiction and burnout is real. In the 1970s, the psychologist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term “burnout” from his work with heroin addicts, where he witnessed their veins “burn out” from needle injections and their cigarettes burn down to stubs.  

Despite a recent Gallup survey indicating that some 23% of workers experience burnout,…

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