Just in time for summer vacation season, the World Health Organization has revisited its definition of “burnout.”
The agency updated its handbook of diseases to call burnout a “syndrome” rather than a “state of vital exhaustion,” its previous definition. It’s a small distinction. Burnout is still not an official medical condition, but the agency now considers it more than a sense of fatigue.
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