Contents

Preface: Hell Is a Bad Place to Pitch a Tent

Introduction: Notes from the Underworld

Chapter 1: Mapping the Descent into the Inferno

Stage 1: Driven by an Ideal

Stage 2: Working Like a Maniac

Stage 3: Putting Your Own Needs Last

Stage 4: Miserable, and Clueless as to Why

Stage 5: The Death of Values

Stage 6: Frustrated, Aggressive, and Cynical

Stage 7: Emotionally Exhausted and Disengaged

Stage 8: “I’ve Morphed into What?”

Stage 9: “Get Away from Me!”

Stage 10: Inner Emptiness

Stage 11: Who Cares and Why Bother?

Stage 12: Physical and Mental Collapse

Chapter 2: The Depression Industry

Chapter 3: The Childhood Roots of Burnout

Chapter 4: Personality, Temperament, and Burnout

Chapter 5: Energy Management

Chapter 6: Letting Go and Moving On

Chapter 7: The Great Revival—Awakening in the Now

Chapter 8: Heaven on Earth

Epilogue: Your Epitaph

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

About the Author