This is a YouTube video titled "Have You Ever Experienced Burnout? Using Burnout as a Mirror to Your Life w/ Hannah Nieves #shorts" containing a personal narrative by Hannah Nieves recorded in June 2024. In this video, Hannah shares her experience with severe burnout, describing physical and emotional symptoms, and reflecting on how burnout mirrored deeper issues in her life.
Rewind. About, like, four years ago, I went into the hospital for burnout. At the time, I thought I had a kidney infection or kidney stones, something along those lines. And they couldn't figure out what was going on. So, long story short, it was my body basically shutting down because I just kept going and going and going. And this instance of burnout was something that I kept experiencing even, like, years prior in the corporate world, like, even back until college. You know, I remember when I was interviewing for Goldman Sachs at the time, and I was so nervous that I'd get hives all over my body. So after that, I couldn't eat anything besides bone broth and water for three weeks. And the process of actually going and eating again was so traumatic that I ended up creating almost like a phobia around eating, phobia around going out in public, phobia around, like, speaking. And speaking was probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to do because I was always nervous about getting sick. What was really interesting was that this catalyst of going through burnout was actually a mirror from everything from my past.