I spiraled down for about 3 months before I hit bottom. In caring for others I had not adequately cared for my heart or soul, or let others who wanted to care for it do so. Click To Tweetīut I’d say the most likely candidate for what derailed me is what I’d call emotional burnout. Who really knows what corrodes the soul to the point where it deflates? Burnout corrodes the soul to the point where it deflates. Looking back, the diagnosis is still a little elusive and mysterious. That was the last thing I wanted to happen to me. And sometimes, tragically, they were done – hope never fully returned and they didn’t ever become the person they were before. What terrified me is that I knew many in ministry and life had gone down this road before me and some of them never made it back.įor them, ministry was done. It was so disorienting I didn’t know what to do.
I had been tired before, but I had never truly been burned out. Like most people who experience burnout, it felt like a strange land. My motivation and passion dropped to zero.
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People who weren’t that close to me didn’t realize it was happening.īut I knew something inside me had broken, and I didn’t know how to fix it. I never lost my faith (I just couldn’t feel it). I could get out of bed every day, and I did.Īs a Christian, I kept praying and reading my Bible. Perhaps it wasn’t a stereotypical depression. On that fateful summer eleven years ago, I found the edge, and as I was falling, I knew this time I realized I couldn’t pull myself back.Īlthough I’m not a person who suffers from depression, I’m sure I would have gone to the doctor and received a diagnosis of clinical depression that summer when I fell off the edge.
That approach worked just fine until the summer of 2006 when it didn’t. I would get tired – out of balance – but when I saw the edge, I could always pull myself back. People had always warned me I would burn out. The challenge is, once you cross the line, it’s so difficult to get back.īack in 2006, I entered the darkest period of my life. There’s a fine line between being tired and actually burning out.
Ever wonder if you’re burning out? I know a lot of leaders and people who wonder about that.
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