10 Steps How to Get Rid of Emotional Burnout in Writing

The experience of emotional burnout scares every writer. You lose your imagination and you are literally run out of words. You are desperate to find at least some idea, but you are too tired even to think about it. The inspiration and passion disappear along with the desire to write. The emotional burnout, previously considered as a form of overfatigue, is now believed to be one of the severe problems of modern people. Oversimplifying the consequences and the causes of burnout, we let it become the uncontrolled part of our lives. However, there are several steps that can guide to beating emotional burnout and return to your normal writing life.

Step 1. Find the guilty

    Stress pulls a trigger to an emotional burnout. If you are consumed by stress, your life turns into the rush of events that are no longer interesting to you. Stress departs you from a full life. Various factors cause climbing of the stress level. However, some particular factors make you quit writing. Define these factors.

Step 2. Reduce the influence of the causes of stress

    When you have defined what causes more stress in your life, try to minimize this influence. The best way is to get rid of these things. For example, the weather causes the stress leading to emotional breakdown. You can keep working in these conditions or temporarily change your place of the inhabitant. If you have already been suffering emotional burnout, also consider taking a vacation (watch step 4).

Step 3. Stop overstraining

    Emotional burnout is not a laziness or temporal fatigue. Treat it like a disease. Give yourself some time to have a rest and stop forcing yourself. In this case, forcing only redoubles the effect of burnout. Be kind to yourself and use your resources and time to replenish your mental activity and restore life energy.

Step 4. Take vacations

    Writers do not know how to spend vacations properly. For them, vacation is only a change of scene. They continue to work in spite of the desire to go to the beach or to climb a mountain. The fatigue level grows albeit a writer does not even notice that. If you are one of those writers who have always spend their vacations with writing, change your attitude to what a vacation is. You should not write or even think about your job. Give yourself some space for new experience.

Step 5. Create a schedule

    A writer’s schedule should include not only working hours but also time for having a rest. In order to avoid emotional burnout, you need to keep the balance of vital forces. Taking downtime periods regularly, you have time to restore your energy. Besides, living according to the schedule impacts less stress to your body.

Step 6. Sacrifice the unimportant things

    We endure thousands of commitments and never give them up until they are fulfilled. Writers frequently continue to work on the papers that do not bring them pleasure or money just because they cannot leave them behind. This continuous forcing creates a stressful environment. Learn to find unimportant things and sacrifice them. Save your inspiration for the writing that makes you happy.

Step 7. Track your achievements

    Emotional burnout is frequently guided by a feeling of disappointment. Not to give up, you should always remember what you have already achieved. Start your own journal of achievement and write down the things you are proud of. This small tip also perfectly works when you have some problems with inspiration.

Step 8. Check the vitamins

    Perhaps, your emotional burnout is caused by the lack of vitamins. In any case, you can improve your health starting to take a complex of vitamins or vitamin B and D. Also, take sunbathes to keep the level of vitamin D in your organism.

Step 9. Go to gym

    The quickest way to get rid of depressing thoughts and increase your mind and body strength is to go to the gym. Check different exercises or group classes. For some writers the best way to get rid of emotional burnout is to make several repetitions of bench press, others prefer to calm down with yoga classes.

Step 10. Forgive your weakness

    You are a human being, and nothing human is alien to you. If you feel that you need a couple of weeks or even months of rest, take this time. Value yourself and always be kind to your weakness. Allow yourself to take pauses and do nothing. Success always comes towards exhaustion. But the exhaustion is not a burnout. Be attentive to what you feel and how long you can endure stress. It is easier to avoid burnout than to deal with it. Make sure that you have enough rest and never force yourself to write more you can.