Muir took extended periods of time off for burnout before coming to a stark realisation. “There was a point where I realised that the stress, anxiety and trauma of working in that sector kept me up at night more than the stress, anxiety and trauma of having been in abusive relationships. I felt the exact same level of fear walking to work as I used to do walking home to my abuser. I knew I had to leave.”

Surprisingly, Muir discovered there has been decades of research looking at how burnout impacts the brain in almost exactly the same way as trauma does, affecting everything from our prefrontal cortex to our cortisol levels. “As someone who has been diagnosed with C-PTSD, I noticed the similarities between when I was having a PTSD episode and when I was burnt out.”

It confirmed for Muir that the solutions society has put in place to alleviate burnout are far from ideal. A day of self-care, a yoga retreat or a massage in the face of bone-numbing fatigue isn’t going to cut it.

“In public discourse, burnout is still treated as something you can cure by taking the day off and then coming back into the really harmful workplace or into the society that caused it,” says Muir. “We know morally and ethically you shouldn’t put a survivor of trauma back into the same scenario that hurt them. But when it comes to burnout, we’re expected to jump straight back in.”

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