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Burnout But Still Showing Up? Here’s How Therapy Can Help | Dr. Marie Atallah
From the outside, you’re doing fine: showing up to work, answering texts, keeping the calendar full. But inside, you’re running on fumes. Maybe you feel emotionally flat. Maybe the smallest things overwhelm you. Maybe you just feel... disconnected.
This is burnout. And it doesn’t always look like collapse — sometimes, it looks like quiet survival.
What Burnout Feels Like When You’re Still “Doing Life”
- You sleep but never feel rested
- You zone out during conversations
- You can’t remember the last time something felt truly joyful
- You feel numb or irritable most of the time
- You say “I’m fine” because you don’t know what else to say
This kind of functioning is deceptive — because things aren’t bad enough to justify falling apart, but they’re nowhere near good enough to feel like yourself.
How Therapy Helps When You’re in This Place
You don’t have to wait until you break down to get support. In fact, therapy can be most powerful when you’re in this limbo space — when you’re still upright, but off-course.
In sessions, we:
- Help you reconnect with what actually matters to you
- Explore what’s behind the exhaustion
- Identify and unwind the habits that keep you stuck
- Work on nervous system regulation (so you can rest, for real)
- Rebuild your internal compass — not for perfection, but for peace
If you’re surviving — but nowhere near thriving — therapy can be the recalibration that helps you feel alive again.
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