Mid-year burnout: does it exist or are we all just permanently tired? -The Guardian

[hinterland]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...just-permanently-tired?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“This” was a Guardian callout on “mid-year burnout”, asking readers to assess their moods and energy levels at this point in 2019 – were they tracking upwards with the mercury? Or were the longer, warmer days not having the positive impact they usually did?

It was undeniably, as one reader said, “a self-selecting sample answering a leading question” – but many more saw the words: “Could you be suffering from mid-year burnout?” and responded with an unequivocal yes. Their responses, mostly submitted on condition of anonymity, told of sleep disrupted by lighter evenings, of unusually bad hay fever, of illnesses still lingering after months.

 

[Peter T]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...just-permanently-tired?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I must admit when I lived in the north west of Scotland I reached a point in the Summer when I began to look forward to winter. Long dark nights and nothing to do grew appealing, up to the point in Winter when I was fully rested and ready for the sun again.

But then I would have house guests most of the Summer, we would walk in the hills till three or four in the morning. I would go to work after a couple of hours sleep only to return home at six o’clock to cook everyone else’s breakfast. Sometimes I would drop one lot of guests off at the ferry at 9pm, clean the house and do the laundry in time to pick the next lot up at 6am.