Könyv Still Functioning, Still Empty Indrajeet Nayak

Still Functioning, Still Empty

The High-Functioning Burnout Recovery Protocol for Perfectionists Who Look Successful and Feel Nothing

Szerző: Indrajeet Nayak
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Indrajeet Nayak
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 07. 11. 2026
10 770 Ft
You won the thing. You remember the room and the photograph and the man saying your name correctly....

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
258
EAN
9798183034387
Enbook ID
54387998
Súly
351
Méretek
152 x 229 x 15

Teljes leírás

You won the thing. You remember the room and the photograph and the man saying your name correctly. What you cannot remember is feeling anything. That is the arithmetic of high-functioning burnout. Nothing has collapsed. The reviews are good, the invoices are paid, and your mother still tells people you are doing so well. And somewhere in the last two years you stopped tasting food properly, started crying in car parks, and began answering "how are you" with a sentence you could say in your sleep. This book is for the people who look fine. The perfectionist who cannot admit the tank is empty because admitting it would mean the whole performance was optional. The high achiever who has been treating exhaustion as a scheduling problem, then a sleep problem, then a discipline problem, and has not yet called it what it is. Indrajeet Nayak writes for the reader who is tired of being told they are doing great. Through four people you will recognise, he traces what high-functioning burnout actually costs and what recovery actually asks for. Not a retreat. Not a resignation. Not a green smoothie. You will meet a product manager in Bengaluru who keeps a resignation letter disguised as a spreadsheet, an emergency nurse who eats his lunch standing up in a supply cupboard, a young lawyer who irons his shirts on the floor of his flat, and a deputy head teacher who falls asleep in the school car park with her hands still on the wheel. None of them collapse. That is the point, and it is why nobody around them notices for years. Here is what the chapters do. They separate burnout from depression from ordinary tiredness, because the three need different responses and people apply the wrong one for years. They name the four masks perfectionists wear to work and point out the one that is quietly the most dangerous. They explain why rest has stopped working and what the body has been asking for instead. They take the job question slowly, so that nobody resigns at eleven at night and regrets it in April. They give you a sentence, eight words long, that buys twenty-four hours before a yes you did not mean, and they show what happens the first time somebody uses it. Everything here is built for listening. No charts, no worksheets, nothing to print, nothing that depends on seeing a page. The frameworks have names you can hold in your head at a traffic light, and the numbers are plain enough to follow while driving. You have been functioning. This is about feeling again.