Name: More People Than Ever Are Experiencing Burnout
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'More People Than Ever Are Experiencing Burnout' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'More People Than Ever Are Experiencing Burnout' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-10. Transcript available.

Yeah. Do you get a lot of people who feel like they're at their wits end? What
are things that you're seeing people doing outside of drugs? Patterns that I
would love to, if it's okay to hear about some of those, because I would love
for people to know that these types of things are repairable.
Yeah. Maybe the biggest one right now is the number of people burning out. They
just are like working 60, 80 hour weeks and they're getting to a point where
they're just can't do this anymore. What's going on with my life? And that's
what I was talking about with the sympathetic nervous system. I'm getting tired.
I'm starting to burn out.
But if I dig a little deeper, I can push, I can push, I can keep going until
you eventually do burn out.
Yeah. That's where societal, the society affected me because there was always
that you have to grind harder, the 70 minute work week or something or like,
you know, the four minute relationship. There's all these books.
Unrealistic, man. You know, the 52nd life. And you're like, I don't want to do
that.
Exactly. And so that's where society even pushed me even further. And about
four years ago, I had like a breakdown. It was like, I was burnt out. I couldn't
even listen to somebody talk because there was no.
Yeah, you can't concentrate.
And it made me, it physically exhausted me to listen to somebody in a
conversation. And I kept working. There's an episode of this podcast where I
felt it was just, man. And just the fact that I, then I start to feel bad that
I treated myself that way. You know? Anyway.
Can I share a little bit from me. Yeah, please, man. I got into this work over
20 years ago, but that was after seven years of burnout.
Wow.
So I had worked for, um, till I was 32. And all of a sudden I was just tired
all the time. I couldn't sleep. I was just, and my eyes were getting like, my
wife would go, something's wrong with you. Your eyes are really looking weird.
Yeah, you're looking big. Now you're about to eat a fly.
Oh, it's just big and dark. And, uh, and then went to doctor after doctor and
eventually put me on disability. But I went through seven years of depression
and hell and anxiety. And, uh, and when I came to the end of what the
government would give me for disability, I had to go back to work. So I just
worked on farms. I milked cows. I took care of horses.
Oh yeah. And that was very healing for me. That was very therapeutic. But then,
uh, uh, lady I knew she came to me and said, Tim, we really need help with this
treatment center. And I think you'd be the perfect counselor.
And that cow's out of milk.
And I said, I said, I think you got the wrong guy. I can't go back to that
world. And she's, she came back about three months later and she said, Tim,
I think you're the guy, please give it some thought. And I said, okay, I'll go
for the interview. Um, but when I went for the interview and I said, okay, I'll
give it a try for three months. But I told myself, if you don't make some major
changes in how you go about working, you're not going to make it.
So you got to radically change your boundaries in life and people pleasing and,
and all of that. But the first week as I was working with these people with
trauma and addiction, I was like, this is what I was made for.
These are my people and I fell in love with it, but it came after all of, all
of my work came after seven years of hell burnout that I brought on myself
because of my trauma.
But you didn't know it though, right?
No, I thought I was doing the right thing by pushing myself. I was being a
responsible father and husband. And, uh, so I had a four year old, a three year
old and a one year old.
Oh, wow. So you guys were really making love on the soul.
And then all of a sudden their dad just was sick and in bed all the time. And
they basically all went through abandonment trauma because their dad
disappeared from their life for seven years.
And were you using drugs? Did you use pills and stuff? You didn't. You were
just depressed.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, one of the toughest things I found when I had, when I was struggling was,
uh, when I was physically struggling, right? Like I'd gotten so depleted.
Yeah. Um, that all the doctors I would go to, they couldn't really diagnose it,
you know, they would take my chronic fatigue syndrome.
Yeah. And you're looking up all these crazy things. And then you're wearing,
you know, like at one point I was just like, I had on like one of those, I'd
bought like a posture organizer from the, uh, thing.
And I just had like a couple, like some shake weights and some, like some
weighted anklets on and people are like, what are you doing?
And I'm like, they say this works, you know, like try the bracelet.
Oh, everything.
Oh, my whoop.
Oh, I used to have people bring me little mason jars of their home concoctions.
That were going to carry me.