Burnout Isn’t a Personal Failure. It’s a System Overload.
Discover the science-backed Mental Health Bucket model for understanding and recovering from burnout.
About the Book
Burnout doesn’t always come with a dramatic crash. More often, it arrives silently—creeping in layer by layer, until everything feels heavy, unfocused, and harder to care about. In Burnout: Where the Head Goes, the Body Follows, Dr. Adel Elsayed introduces a simple yet powerful visual model: the Mental Health Bucket.
With vivid metaphors and grounded science, this book helps you recognize your unique stress system—what fills your bucket (inputs), what relieves the pressure (drains), and how your past, biology, and habits shape your capacity. It’s not about escaping your life—it’s about learning how to recover without shutting down.
Whether you're a caregiver, clinician, leader, parent, or high-performer silently carrying more than most, this book will give you the tools to understand burnout, reclaim your energy, and restore your clarity.
What You’ll Learn
- Why burnout is more systemic than emotional—and how your body tells the truth before your mind catches up
- The Bucket Model: a visual system to track stress, capacity, and resilience
- How to identify hidden “faucets” that pour stress into your day
- How to create lasting “drains” through habits like sleep, mindfulness, movement, and boundaries
- How your biology, trauma history, and environment shape your mental bandwidth
- How to recover without needing to quit your job, abandon your family, or escape to a retreat