Is it normal to feel so tired & burnt out? I feel there isn’t any work life balance in Singapore.
I’ve been working for a while now, and on my only free days – I spend almost 12 hours sleeping because I’m so tired.
On my working days, I get about 5 hours of sleep and go to work for about 11-12 hours. I work really hard.
On my free days, I really have no energy and I just want to spend my entire day in bed. I don’t even eat. If I could sleep for the entire day – I most likely would. I have no mood to do anything, I just want to sleep and be left alone.
I don’t have much of a social life, my friends are mostly busy with their own lives so nobody calls me out too.
I’ve been under so much stress that I’ve been getting pimples lmao and frequent painful headaches.
Is this just me or does anyone else feel really tired?
Netizens’ comments
- Apart from others’ suggestion to get more sleep (ideally 7.5 hours per night), might be worth looking at how you’re planning your work day.
For starters, 11-12 hours consistently is unsustainable. Doing so will lead to tiredness and eventually burnout, as you’ve pointed out.
Assuming you’re working in an office job, what’s holding you back from completing your work within the set hours? Do you have focused time for work, or are multitasking hence leading to unproductively hence extended hours? If your team understaffed? Are you taking frequent breaks to reset your mind in between?
Once you sort out your sleep & work cycles, I recommend you also look at your diet and exercise. Cliche as it sounds, you are what you eat (or not eat in your instance). Gotta fuel up healthily cause no one can run on empty. - It is not normal.
-Your working hours are way longer than average.
-Your sleeping hours are way shorter than average.
-You are more socially isolated compared to the average person.
It is harmful.
-You body just needs rest and is frequently crashing on weekends.
-The physical recovery leaves no time and strength for social interaction.
-This leaves the brain starved of variation to routine.
This can be fixed.
-Cut your long working hours.
-Get regular sleep.
-Spend the extra free time for fun and friends. Call the friends yourself. Don’t wait.
Good luck. Yes, you are burnt out. Hope you can take action and get better.