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Burnout Isn't Just a New Phenomenon
Author jonathan mellessi argues that the phenomena of burnout isn't all that new. Some kind of exhaustion that is more than physical tiredness has been part of the human condition for a very long time, he says. A great parallel with burnout is neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, which was first identified a hundred years prior to maslak and freudenberger identifying burnout.