Peter Sorgenfrei explains how to tell burnout from regular tiredness. Burnout lasts more than a couple of weeks and includes trouble sleeping through the night, irritability, withdrawing from people, and persistent sadness. Ordinary tiredness passes faster.
I get this question a lot. How do I know if I'm burned out or just tired? The short answer is if you, over a prolonged period of time, find yourself not able to sleep through the night, being irritable with other people, withdrawing from social interactions, and generally just sort of not feeling happy, feeling sad. And over a longer period of time, I'm thinking about more than a couple of weeks. If If that's like the pattern, then chances are you're heading towards burnout and you're not just tired.
