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Rising costs, social isolation, and nonstop uncertainty are creating a perfect storm for chronic burnout.
What feels like personal exhaustion may often be a rational response to collective pressures.
Humor, connection, and naming these pressures can be small acts of resistance against despair.
If burnout had a publicist, this would be its breakout season. Business is booming. Anxiety is expanding into new markets. Loneliness has become so widespread that it could qualify as a public utility. Even grocery shopping now doubles as an exposure therapy exercise. Perhaps we need a new term for these times: gas-fogging.
Not gaslighting, where someone makes you question your own reality. Gas-fogging is defined as what happens when reality itself starts to feel dimmed. It’s the cumulative effect of rising prices, relentless bad news, social fragmentation, and low-grade uncertainty that........