Post-individualism

That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to

Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.