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What is Disability Burnout? How you can cope with it

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Victoria-Jayne is an LLM LPC law graduate and qualified journalist via the Academy for Disabled Journalists. You can get in touch via email at: contact@legallypowered.co.uk or visit www.legallypowered.co.uk.

Burnout can happen at any time. It’s a feeling that’s more than tiredness, more than feeling run down. It’s a crash and burn that you don’t always see coming.

For those with disabilities, burnout is often more exhausting, lasts longer and affects the body in more ways. It is often caused by either the disability itself, the emotional impact of the disability or outside influences that exacerbate the disability.

The first time I heard the word burnout was from a London Hospital. After years of gaslighting from another and being told I was being naughty when I was struggling to cope and made to feel bad that I was unable to keep control........

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