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Mental Health & Student Wellbeing

Recognising and Dealing with Burnout as an Online Student

Burnout isn't just feeling tired. It's the point where you can't make yourself care about your coursework anymore — where you open your laptop, stare at the assignment, feel nothing, and close it again. It's one of the most common reasons online students drop out, and it's particularly insidious because there's no campus environment around you to notice you're struggling. Nobody sees you not showing up.
Here's what burnout...