A short YouTube transcript (speaker James Laughlin) arguing that while burnout often appears pathological, most people with burnout still function well; those who suffer most tend to be public-service workers who, out of dutifulness and caring, cannot step away from work, creating an impasse worsened by HR pressure and job insecurity.
When we read about burnout, it all sounds pretty sad, pretty pathological, but most people that I see with burnout actually do very well. The ones that do poorly are those who are usually in the public service, and they have not been able to function, and so they're not able to get to work. And the human resources department is putting pressure on them, and they really should need the job and reinvent themselves. But because they're so dutiful and so caring and so pract out of their work, they believe they can't step away. And you get this impasse. That's where it gets really difficult.
