Burnout is a chronic form of workplace stress that appears to be on the rise. The article [here] describes some symptoms of the condition, as well as two individuals’ experience of it together with some experts’ perspectives. One aspect of the problem seems to be that more and more cuts to funding are occurring as a result of austerity, but both of the individuals seem to have benefited from individual counselling. This other article [here] describes the issue from a millennial’s perspective in terms of the additional stresses that some younger adults have to contend with.