What I am hearing when checking in with people at the moment is that they are limping to the end of the year, or that they well and truly hit the wall weeks ago. There is no doubt about it, our need to mount and maintain a stress response was called upon this year. Prolonged stress does not come without it's problems, particularly as we get older.

Burnout is a real thing. The World Health Organisation revised it's definition of burnout mid last year stating that burnout is a “syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”.