Maíra Cardi reveals that she developed Burnout: ‘It starts without great signs’

Fitness influencer Maíra Cardi, 38, used her Instagram profile to reveal that she developed bournout syndrome after giving birth to daughter Sophia, 3, from her relationship with actor Arthur Aguiar. She shared photos breastfeeding her daughter, said she was unable to take maternity leave and explained the entire process until the diagnosis in her Instagram feed and stories.

“Even though I was in the immediate postpartum period, I already had to go back to work, I did. Despite loving my job, I didn’t go back to work for less than a week by choice. Like many other mothers go back to work because they need to, with me I don’t It was different,” he said.

Maíra said that, although many people are not familiar with the term burnout, most women who are mothers have already had the experience of maternal burnout. “It all starts unpretentiously, with no big signs. When you realize it, you’re already extremely sick and can’t handle basic day-to-day tasks,” she explained.

​Maíra said that women end up developing the syndrome due to the overload of domestic and professional work. According to her, women forget to add household chores and motherhood with the professional. “Often we get lost and live only for others”, warns the influencer

In the case of the influencer, she says that the accumulation of motherhood, work, marriage, separation, Big Brother, her sick daughter Sophia and companies contributed to the picture. “And still adding to the intensity that I live life, burnout came. All that can exist, together. How to deal with all this and the symptoms of such wear and tear?”, said Maíra, who continued to talk about the subject in her Instagram stories.

The term burnout was adopted from English to describe professional burnout. There are books about the generational profile of the syndrome, celebrities such as gymnast Simone Biles came to the public to tell their experiences, podcasts and profiles on social networks deal with the subject.

Since January 1, 2022, the syndrome has gained a new and more detailed description in the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases). The change is subtle. From a health condition, it is now described as an occupational phenomenon, in the index of “problems associated with being employed or unemployed”.

The most detailed description of the syndrome, beyond the simple professional burnout, says that burnout has three dimensions that may or may not occur concomitantly.

There is professional dissatisfaction that escapes into personal life, a permanent feeling of lack of purpose, depersonalization, when people start to be seen as objects and the worker expresses himself through cynical behavior, and there is emotional exhaustion, which can be seen as a state of profound apathy.

A delicate starting point in approaching burnout is that there is no defined and unique treatment for those affected by the syndrome.