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High-Functioning Burnout

The Science and Psychology of Why You Keep Collapsing After You Start to Function

You keep performing. Then you collapse. Then you do it again. The burnout cycle that hides inside competence.

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High-Functioning Burnout by Bart Reevers, book cover

What this book does

You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're caught in a cycle that nobody talks about: performing at a high level, collapsing, recovering just enough to perform again, then collapsing harder.

High-functioning burnout doesn't look like burnout from the outside. You still deliver. You still show up. But internally, you're running on fumes and urgency.

This book maps the collapse-recovery-collapse cycle, explains the neuroscience behind it, and gives you a way out that doesn't require you to quit everything and move to the countryside.

Who it's for

For high performers who are running on fumes and urgency.

What it helps with

  • Understand the collapse-recovery-collapse cycle and why it keeps repeating
  • Learn why urgency replaces energy and how to break the pattern
  • Identify the hidden phases of high-functioning burnout before full collapse
  • Practical recovery strategies that work within real-life constraints
  • Written for people who can't just 'take a break' but need to find another way

The most dangerous form of burnout is the kind that still looks like success.

High-Functioning Burnout

Notes from readers.

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I just started a new job and I already feel this. This book does have helpful tips and I'm excited to put them to use!
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The most dangerous form of burnout is the kind that still looks like success. If that sentence found you, this is your book.