Danielle Ralston discusses recognizing and overcoming overwhelm and burnout, with focus on neurodivergent adults. Using an iceberg metaphor, she explains autistic meltdowns and offers self-care strategies to prevent burnout.
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We're gonna teach you how to overcome overwhelm and burnout. Part of that's using— that is, it's really hard, especially as adults. If you're a neurodivergent adult, or, or God bless you, a neurotypical working with neurodivergent adults, burnout is a real thing. And I think burnout for anyone these days, even if you're not neurodivergent, is a real problem that we deal with. And there are some skills that are needed to teach us how to keep ourselves from burning out, because when we burn out, we get super sick. All the things fall apart. Life falls apart. It can become this horrible tragic cycle that just snowballs. We want to teach you how to overcome that and decrease that while you're in the middle of it, because before you get to it, you don't even realize you're getting there. You're already in the middle of it before you even realize.
Yeah, I saw a thing today. It was like autistic meltdown or burnout for neurodivergent people is like the iceberg. So this up here is what people see, like the one thing that just was straw that broke the camel's back, and then they burn out. But what they don't see is