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The New Neurasthenia
The drudgery, not just of formal work but also of endless, even unfinishable self-improvement, means that exhaustion is not acute but chronic.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
One of the recurring similarities from anecdotes of burnout is a sense of temporal inertia – a kind of suspension of that time passes both achingly slow (similar to the temporal experience of the depressive where “a day feels like a year”) and freakily fast (the month/s of prescribed “sick leave” from work flies by). This is a sort of hauntology fo... See more