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By the book, burnout is the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. In reality, it’s as if a personal rain cloud has descended upon your life, work, relationship, or hobby that you used to love. Nothing seems to go your way and even the most interesting and exciting opportunities seem to be a mountain of boring obstacles to trudge your meaningless existence through. Burnout is not only bad for the person experiencing the condition, its bad or even dangerous for the people around them.