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The Teenager's Guide to Burnout
- Narrator
- Natasha Stiven
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 18 December 2025
- Run Time
- 3 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Does any of this sound like you?
- Lacking in energy and feeling that your life has lost its sparkle
- Feeling like you can't ever quite relax
- Unable to sleep despite being exhausted all the time
- Finding that you don't really enjoy anything anymore, even things you used to love
- Feeling that everyone is irritating and no one understands
- Finding going to school really hard or not possible at all anymore
Then this book might help.
These are signs that you are experiencing burnout − your battery has taken a battering and you are running on empty. Many people think burnout only happens to adults, but it's something lots of teenagers experience too.
This book will help you to understand what burnout is, how you got there and what you can do to get back to a life you enjoy.
We've written it to help you work out if you might be burnt out, and if so, what you can do about it. It will help you identify some of the ways that you might be getting stuck when you're trying to get better. You'll get some ideas as to what is and isn't helping. And if you decide that you aren't really burnt out but you're heading that way, this book has some ideas to stop it from happening in the future.
Co-written by expert clinical psychologist Dr Naomi Fisher, who has helped many teenagers deal with the stresses and pressures of school and life, and by bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker.
Critics Review
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Naomi and Eliza have produced an accessible, engaging book that is a welcoming combination of personal stories, exercises and lovely illustrations that clearly addresses this common yet rarely discussed problem. The book challenges thoughts and beliefs commonly held about stress and burnout and introduces new perspectives, ideas and self-help tasks to promote effective change through a four-step process from breakdown through repair and learning to the new road ahead. The book also contains a helpful summary for parents so they can be understanding and supportive of their teens' road to change and, hopefully, recovery
Dr Russell Hurn, chartered counselling psychologist
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This book is an absolute asset for teenagers and those who love and support them in understanding and recovering from burnout. It's not just the clear explanations of burnout and recovery that are helpful, but the way Naomi and Eliza weave in personal stories from their own and other people's lives, which makes it a warm, relatable and hopeful reading experience. You will come away understanding more about what burnout is, the factors that contribute to it and importantly, with a pathway for positive recovery. I highly recommend this book and it has a firm place on my bookshelf, as well as being on my 'recommended reading' list for young people experiencing burnout
Dr Jo Coombs, BPS chartered psychologist and consultant HCPC-registered clinical psychologist
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At last, a book that has been written for young people that help them understand what burnout is and how to recover from it. Naomi and Eliza have included stories of their own lives as well as other peoples' stories and this makes the book so much more relatable. The book explains what burnout is, why it happens and why it feels so hard to recover from burnout. Eliza's illustrations make the stories come to life and the practical exercises throughout the book give young people the opportunity to practice the strategies that will help them in burnout and on the road to recovery. This is a great resource for anyone who supports young people at home or in the community to know what burnout in teenagers look like and also how to support them in their recovery. The book is full of hope for young people and I've recommended it as a must-read to the young people I work with, their parents and other professionals
Anne Turnbull, EMDR consultant and BACP accredited counsellor
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Details
- Author
- Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker
- Narrator
- Natasha Stiven
- Duration
- 3 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 December 2025
- ISBN
- 9781405566575
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Coping with / advice about stress and stress-related issues or topics, Teenagers: advice for parents, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: School, education and teachers
Synopsis
An essential guide for all teenagers experiencing stress and burnoutDoes any of this sound like you? - Lacking in energy and feeling that your life has lost its sparkle- Feeling like you can't ever quite relax- Unable to sleep despite being exhausted all the time- Finding that you don't really enjoy anything anymore, even things you used to love- Feeling that everyone is irritating and no one understands- Finding going to school really hard or not possible at all anymoreThen this book might help. These are signs that you are experiencing burnout − your battery has taken a battering and you are running on empty. Many people think burnout only happens to adults, but it's something lots of teenagers experience too. This book will help you to understand what burnout is, how you got there and what you can do to get back to a life you enjoy. We've written it to help you work out if you might be burnt out, and if so, what you can do about it. It will help you identify some of the ways that you might be getting stuck when you're trying to get better. You'll get some ideas as to what is and isn't helping. And if you decide that you aren't really burnt out but you're heading that way, this book has some ideas to stop it from happening in the future.Co-written by expert clinical psychologist Dr Naomi Fisher, who has helped many teenagers deal with the stresses and pressures of school and life, and by bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker.
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