Coaching practices for How to Overcome Burnout and Depression

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• Things that used to be nothing
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• The thing I once loved most has become pure obligation
• I’m sick of logging everything
• After I’ve blown a deadline I lash myself with guilt and try to make up for it with a brutal all-nighter, which wrecks me so badly that I just crash and avoid everything again

Practices that may help

1. Grade activity difficulty upward gradually
   Start with the easiest feasible pleasant activity and increase demands only after success.
   Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical
2. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
3. Recover intrinsic interest after it has been crowded out
   Intrinsic interest that has been undermined can often be partially recovered by removing the reward and reconnecting to original reasons.
   The Overjustification Effect: When Rewards Kill Motivation
4. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
5. Use guilt-free play to recover rather than double down
   When avoidance happens, recover with genuine rest — not punitive extra work.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
6. Identify and interrupt avoidance and withdrawal patterns
   Notice when you are avoiding or withdrawing and treat it as the maintenance mechanism, not self-care.
   Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood
7. Sleep as the nightly cycle-completion reset
   Sleep is the body’s built-in mechanism for clearing the day’s accumulated stress chemistry.
   The Stress Response Cycle: How to Discharge Stress, Not Just Remove the Stressor
8. Consistency over intensity
   Treat regularity as the active ingredient, not how hard any single session is.
   Exercise for Mental Health
9. Recognize and recover from spoon debt
   When you’ve spent more than you had, treat recovery as a genuine obligation, not as laziness — debt must be repaid before the next draw.
   Spoon Theory, Made Practical
10. Pleasant events scheduling
    Deliberately introduce small pleasures into daily life — not as luxuries, but as antidepressants.
    Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood

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