A recent survey found that 66% of parents experienced parental burnout last year.
That exhaustion is widely felt in the parenting community, in no small part because of the pandemic,, a psychologist, tells SELF. “It’s been a long, hard haul, and it’s just not over,” Dr. Kennedy-Moore, who was not involved with the new research, says. “It’s just the strain of having had to cope under such difficult circumstances for so long: People are profoundly tired.
, the pandemic is still wreaking havoc on kids’ and adults’ calendars . Dr. Kennedy-Moore shares that she recently had four patients cancel in the span of one week due to in-house COVID-19 cases. “In my school district they re-instituted masks. The ‘When are we ever going to be done?’ feeling is very hard” for people raising children, she explains.
Loss of motivation, frequent headaches, or feeling overwhelmed by an easy task are also potential signs of parental burnout, Dr. Turner says. To that list, Dr. Melnyk adds fatigue, irritability, the tendency to get angry easily, and sleeping too much or not enough. Speaking with other parents can help eliminate feelings of shame and isolation for parents experiencing parental burnout, Dr. Bennett explains. Oftentimes, she says, parents going through this think, ‘There must be something wrong with me.’ Speaking with other people who know the feeling challenges the guilt associated with burnout, since when other people can relate to what we’re going through, it makes us feel less alone, Dr. Bennett says.
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