Emotional Exhaustion: When You’re Tired in a Way Sleep Can’t Fi

There is a type of tiredness that goes beyond the body. It doesn’t matter if you sleep ten hours, take a long weekend off, or even spend a day doing nothing; you still wake up feeling like something inside you is running on low battery. That tiredness isn’t physical; it’s emotional. It’s called emotional exhaustion, and it’s one of the quietest, most insidious forms of burnout people experience, often without realizing it. It creeps in slowly, almost imperceptibly. At first, it manifests as...