Patient has optimized their morning, their commute, their email, their friendships, their sleep. Everything is measured. Nothing feels better.
Burnout arriving in 3 quarters.
None. A 'rest protocol' has been implemented.
Patients with Chronic Optimization Burnout typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Optimization Burnout present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Optimizatio totale exhaustiva, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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