Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out

Headaches and stomachaches can also be incited by burnout

Burnout, as it is defined, is not a medical condition — it’s “a manifestation of chronic unmitigated stress,”

Physical exhaustion is another common sign. Dr. Gold said that one of her key symptoms of burnout was fatigue.

One common burnout symptom is insomnia, Dr. Dyrbye said. When researchers in Italy surveyed frontline health care workers with burnout during the first peak of the pandemic, they found that 55 percent reported having difficulty falling asleep, while nearly 40 percent had nightmares.