What Parental Burnout Actually Is (and Isn’t)
You’re still doing everything right and feeling nothing while you do it. That gap between the parent you were and the parent you’ve become has a name, a body of research, and more company than you think.
You’re still doing everything right and feeling nothing while you do it. That gap between the parent you were and the parent you’ve become has a name, a body of research, and more company than you think.
You slept nine hours and still can’t load the dishwasher. For ADHD and autistic parents, burnout doesn’t work the way everyone assumes — and neither does recovery.
You’re both more stressed and more resourceful than most people around you, and those two facts don’t cancel each other out. Here’s what the research actually says about what helps.