Burnout Stories

She spent her whole life becoming the person everyone needed. The perfect daughter. The dependable sister. The friend who never said no. The girl who smiled so often that no one noticed she was quietly falling apart. Amaira has always believed that love is something you earn by sacrificing your own dreams, hiding your pain, and putting everyone else before yourself. But when buried memories begin to surface and long-forgotten truths refuse to stay hidden, the life she carefully built starts to unravel. Some stories are about finding yourself. This one is about what happens after you've spent a lifetime losing yourself. Half Remembered Prayers is a slow-burning, emotionally charged literary drama about family, grief, hidden truths, and the invisible weight carried by the people everyone thinks are the strongest. "When you are not fed love on a spoon, you learn to lick it off knives."

To everyone who has ever smiled while silently falling apart. To the people who stayed awake because their minds refused to rest. To the ones who were called lazy when they were simply trying to survive. And to anyone who has ever felt invisible- This story is for you. New ep on Saturday

''We've spent years trying to beat each other. Now we have to save each other.'' Han Haeun and Yoon Jeonghan have been rivals since high school. Whether it's grades, fashion competitions, or billion-dollar companies, neither of them knows how to lose. When Archaive and Lineare are forced into an unprecedented collaboration, they're thrown into the same boardrooms, the same design studios, and the same spotlight. Between relentless media attention, impossible deadlines, family expectations, and secrets surrounding a death that changed everything, the line between enemy and partner begins to blur... Maybe because sometimes the person you've spent your whole life competing against is the only one you can trust.

Wrapped in a web of confusion, a teenage girl struggles to navigate the complicated layers of her life. Torn between past memories and present reality, she finds herself unable to make the "right" decisions. Her deep desire for the one person she values most leaves her restless and searching for answers. This is a raw look at "friend-sickness," the weight of an unforgettable past, and the bittersweet struggle of a girl standing on the edge.

Letters I wrote to myself during the early stages of recovering from a psychotic episode.

Katsuki Bakugo and Izuku Midoriya have built a life they never thought they have.......a quit home' shared dreams, and a love that never ones wavered. But as work grows heavier the silence slowly replaces the conversations they once cherished, the distance between them becomes impossible to ignore. Neither of them stopped loving stopped loving the other. They're simply trying so hard to protect each other that they forgot how to let each other in. Will the silence become the end of everything they've built............... Or will they find their way back to each other?

An anonymous gamer, a faceless Twitch streamer, and YouTube creator, Nora Byrne goes by noidentityceptmine on the Internet. She never believed she'd get ten subscribers, but within the last two years she has reached a milestone: one million. None of her fans know who she is. She is known for her hoodies, background lights, second alto voice, and hatred for scary video games, which her audience wants to hear her react to. But ideas have disappeared. The intense pressure to give, to give, to make, to make, and upload her videos every day (sometimes two videos per day) has exceeded her limit. After a burnout and struggling with her grief, she takes a break. She knows this is her paycheck. She understands there could be a backlash. She finds a new video gamer, one who yells, high pitch voice, and his Irish accent . . . she starts to watch his videos: Séamus Reid. New perspective. Games that she hasn't played before. Will she return to making videos? Should she reach out? Maybe a new friendship? ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 🌟 Open Novella Contest 2021 ➤ Prompt #29: ❝I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.❞ - Virginia Woolf ➤ Round One, Two, Longlist, and Shortlist Qualifier ✨ ➤ Honorable Mention | All The Feels 💕 💫 Round One First Place Winner 2021 ◇ @WattpadSocialMedia | DM Me | Teen and NA reading list ◇ May 21, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Round Winners ◇ March 25, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | Longlist Part 2 ◇ May 27, 2021 ◇ @OpenNovellaContest | 2021 Honorable Mentions | All the Feels ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @WattpadShortStory | Strugglers ◇ June 30, 2021 ◇ @generalfiction | Freestyle Fiction | Miscellaneous ◇ September 8, 2021 ◇ @ProfileMentalHealth | A New Day ◇ September 30, 2021 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Shortlist ◇ March 15, 2022 ◇ Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Finale In 2026, I'll publish the 2021 edition.

"When you've been conditioned to measure your worth by how much stress you can endure, peace feels dangerous at first." Liam had everything society said a successful man should have-a fast-track corporate career, a rising salary, and a high-status wedding on the horizon. But beneath his tailored suits and impeccable work ethic, he was quietly suffocating. Trapped under relentless deadlines from a toxic supervisor and crushed by family expectations he never asked for, Liam pushed himself to the brink. Until one rainy Friday night on a dark highway shoulder, his mask finally shattered. Broken and stripped of pride, Liam expected judgment. Instead, he found Sophia-his calm in the storm. Sophia didn't care about titles, lavish receptions, or status. She wanted him-whole, healthy, alive. As Liam took his first, terrifying steps toward setting boundaries and walking away from a life burning him out, he learned the hardest truth: Real strength isn't carrying every weight alone. It's having the courage to lay your armor down.

*The cover art work is not mine! credits to whoever created it!* To the world, Rin Itoshi is flawless: top of his class, star athlete, and the perfect student. But behind closed doors, his life is a feeding trough. At school, "friends" leech off his brilliance, using him to carry their weight. At home, he walks a tightrope of volatile tempers, bleeding under bandages his own mother inflicted. Only to be begged to forgive her for it. Strangled by academic burnout and drowning in a home that feels like a minefield, Rin is entirely alone. How long can you maintain a perfect illusion before the weight of everyone else's sins finally crushes you alive?

The Spiral is an embracing invitation for a holistic healing journey leading to ultimate inner freedom. Updated every Sunday.

There is a specific type of corporate cruelty that happens when the person paid to protect you decides to use the rulebook against you. For a year, I thought I had found a rare sanctuary in a cutthroat office environment. She worked on the administrative and compliance side; I worked on the creative side. We kept our worlds separate, meeting only outside the office walls, sharing a depth of trust that felt entirely safe. But when I finally spoke up about a toxic senior executive, the sanctuary completely collapsed. Suddenly, she was dragged into the fallout, and her warmth turned to ice. To protect her own career, she flipped the script entirely. She hid behind her professional vocabulary, weaponising demands for "boundaries" and "space" to rewrite our entire history. Overnight, she turned my presence into a threat, escalating her narrative until she threw the ultimate corporate death sentence at me: she accused me of stalking her. For months, I was left drowning in the wreckage of her words, trying to untangle reality from her narrative. Did I misread everything? Or did she just need to make me the villain to save herself?

Di St. Aurelius Medical Center, rumah sakit paling bergengsi di negara itu, hidup dan mati hanya dipisahkan oleh satu keputusan. Sebagai Chief Internal Medicine Resident, Dr. Evelyn Hart terbiasa menghadapi shift panjang, pasien kritis, dan tekanan yang tidak pernah berhenti. Sampai suatu hari, serangkaian kematian yang seharusnya bisa dicegah mulai terjadi di balik dinding rumah sakit tempat ia mengabdikan hidupnya. Saat mencari kebenaran, Evelyn terpaksa bekerja sama dengan Dr. Rowan Vale mantan trauma surgeon yang dingin, sulit ditebak, dan kebetulan merupakan putra dari CEO rumah sakit itu sendiri. Di tengah kelelahan, kehilangan, persahabatan yang tumbuh di antara shift malam, dan sistem yang perlahan menghancurkan orang-orang yang berusaha menyelamatkan nyawa, mereka menemukan bahwa beberapa luka tidak bisa dilihat melalui hasil pemeriksaan apa pun. Karena terkadang, orang yang paling membutuhkan pertolongan bukanlah pasien yang terbaring di ranjang rumah sakit. Melainkan mereka yang berdiri di sampingnya.

Five kids. Five heritages. One big problem.

Short story

He learned early how to become the version of himself everyone wanted. Caught between expectations and his own quiet truth, a boy walks through life wearing identities that never fully feel like his. This story is about the moments we stay silent, the roles we play to survive, and the slow, painful search for who we really are.

Mia, an overachiever from a small town, is initially praised and awarded for her achievements. However, upon entering this new academic realm, she finds herself overshadowed by peers who are equally exceptional. Mia's journey unfolds as she grapples with feelings of burnout and insecurity, struggling to regain her confidence. Along the way, she discovers the hidden struggles of her fellow students, finding solace and camaraderie amidst the pressures of academic validation. The narrative delves into the complexities of student life, exploring themes of competition, support, and the internal battles faced beneath the surface of achievement.

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Yan Ng is the poorest student at Two Bridges Academy. While her peers are heiresses to great fortunes, her family struggles to get by selling treats at their small humble bakery. Lucky for them, Yan is at the top of her class. But behind closed doors, she feels inadequate as if nothing she ever does is enough. Enter Maia and Ainsley, two girls who swoop in and make her a part of their friend group. For the first time, she feels like she belongs at her preppy private school, but that's because they've confused her family for the owners of Ng Corporation, a massive overseas distribution company. Yan plays along, lying as much as she could to stay with her new rich friends. But when someone from her past threatens to expose her secret after a horrible misunderstanding, she must lie even more to cover her tracks. Can she hold up her elaborate facade or will she be exposed as one of Two Bridges's four charity cases?

Leah's life exists in the in-between spaces - between exhaustion and responsibility, between motherhood and identity, between the woman she used to be and the stranger she sees in the mirror. With an autistic daughter who needs her constantly and a marriage quietly fading, Leah moves through her days in survival mode. But one evening becomes the quiet beginning of a shift she can't yet name. A conversation, a spark, a moment of being seen... and suddenly the space between who she is and who she might be begin to widen. The Space Between is a story about burnout, motherhood, emotional distance, and the tender, complicated journey of finding your way back to yourself.