Speaker 1: It's perfectly normal to feel tired during your exam period, but if you're completely and utterly exhausted and unable to focus, you might be dealing with something a little bit more serious. Hi everyone, my name is Anna Mascara and I help students and young professionals like yourself achieve their academic and career goals without sacrificing their mental health. If you believe to be suffering from or on the brink of academic burnout, here are some of the early signs to watch out for, how to deal with them, and how to prevent study burnout moving forward. Let us first take a look at the definition of study burnout. According to clinical psychologist Zaidini, study or academic burnout is a state of mental and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged studying and stressful school work. Study burnout reduces your productivity, drains your energy, and may even leave you feeling increasingly hopeless, powerless, cynical, and resentful. Zaidini states that it's common to feel overwhelmed or disengaged from studies once in a while, but there are signs that these common feelings are escalating into study burnout, which is, as you may have guessed, a much more serious issue. Now because study burnout doesn't just come out of nowhere, it's important to recognize the early signs of burnout before you find yourself smack in the middle of it. Academic burnout usually has its roots in stress, so the faster you can catch those key stressors and address them, the better chances you have to mitigate burnout. Now let's take a look at warning signs of study burnout. These can be, and of course are not limited to, long-term fatigue. You can find yourself feeling absolutely drained no matter how much sleep you get, resulting in fatigue and sometimes even insomnia. Lack of motivation to attend classes or even start assignments, to the point where even deadlines approaching can get you to step it up. Intellectual exhaustion. You find it increasingly harder to focus or problem solve as well as you used to. Increased pain and tension in your body that can manifest as headaches, sore muscles, aches, or jaw tension. Inability of the brain to absorb more information, an unwillingness to study further, a decline in academic performance, and loss of confidence in your academic abilities. Apathy towards educational topics that you used to enjoy or find interesting. How to prevent burnout in college and university. I honestly believe that leveling up your time management and organizational skills are the two most important things you can do on the daily that will help prevent study burnout from creeping in. Creating and sticking to a realistic study schedule and making sure to keep your notes and school documents neatly organized after each lecture will prevent you from getting overwhelmed. I have so many videos on these topics that I will link in the description box below, so you can skip to the issue that is most relevant to you. I would also encourage you to visit, of course, my website, AnimusCare.com, because there are even more free tools and resources that can help you become a better student without pulling all-nighters and neglecting your health. How to deal with study burnout. So, you weren't able to catch the early signs mentioned previously, and you find yourself, like I said before, smack in the middle of a full-blown study burnout. What do you do? Now, it's important to note that study burnout symptoms tend to overlap or worsen anxiety and or depression symptoms. Being at the heart of it all can make you feel like you've fallen into a dark hole with no way out in sight. That's why I encourage you, or actually, I implore you to first reach out. Trying to take this dragon on by yourself might not work for everyone, so signal that you need help. Tell a professor, a friend, a family member, or someone you trust how you are feeling. You'd be surprised how quickly people that love you jump in to help. The next step is to allow your mind and body to rest. Now, wait a second. Complete rest, even if you can't afford to. Say you have an exam in five minutes. Breathe and sit your butt down on a park bench and feed the ducks, like Blair Woldorf style. I don't care if you failed a test, and neither should you. There are more important things in life than a high school English quiz worth 40%. Please take it from someone who even three years later still struggles with the aftermath of a full-blown burnout. So with that being said, thank you so much for watching. Please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you like it, and subscribe to me if you like what you see, because I post new videos every week or sometimes twice a week. Kind reminder also to visit my website adamaskara.com for video scripts, for tools, for access to coaching, one-on-one coaching with yours truly, and much, much more. Thank you, everyone. Take care of your health, first and foremost. I'm telling you.