“There’s pressure to be there 100% for every spinning plate,” she said.<\/p>\n
“You can’t let one drop, because that might mean a child not getting attention, a parent not being cared for, or your job suffering.”<\/p>\n
So she stages talks and provides online resources for people suffering burnout.<\/p>\n
“It isn’t the same as just stress, it’s the feeling of being utterly depleted with nothing left to give.”<\/p>\n
Ms Spiller explained that symptoms include waking up absolutely exhausted, despite having had a good night’s sleep, feeling snappy with the people you love or not having the same passion for the things you once enjoyed.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s almost impossible to ask the sandwich generation to do it all by themselves, and we need to look – in a societal, structural way – at how can we actually support what is a fairly new problem,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“There’s pressure to be there 100% for every spinning plate,” she said. “You can’t let one drop, because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-461652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}