Burnout in 2026: How to protect your mental health
How to protect your mental health in 2026. Burnout: between Medical Diagnosis and Social Reality
Burnout doesn’t happen overnight.
It builds up quietly - through constant pressure, emotional overload, and the feeling that rest is never enough.
Burnout is a word we hear everywhere today -
but what does it actually mean from a psychological and clinical perspective?
In this open online lecture, we will look at burnout beyond buzzwords and trends. Together with a practicing psychologist, we will explore burnout between medical classification and social reality, discuss why burnout is not classified as an F-diagnosis in the ICD-10, and where the line lies between burnout, depression, and chronic fatigue.
We will also talk about prevention - how burnout develops, how to recognize early warning signs, and what helps protect your mental health before exhaustion turns into something more serious.
Special attention will be given to the concept of double burden - the invisible dual load many women carry when balancing professional work with emotional and unpaid domestic responsibilities.
This lecture is for you if:
you often feel tired even after resting
you struggle to mentally switch off
you feel constant pressure to “function” and perform
you want to take care of your mental health in a preventive and conscious way
What we’ll cover:
contemporary psychological models of burnout
what burnout really is - and what it is not
how burnout differs from depression and chronic fatigue
why burnout is not a clinical diagnosis in the ICD-10
why women are especially vulnerable to burnout
space for questions and open discussion
Speaker: Gulzira Igilmanova
Psychologist with academic and clinical experience (Berlin-based)
Education:
University of Hamburg - B.Sc.
Humboldt University of Berlin - M.Sc.
Master’s thesis completed at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Qualifications & Practice:
Additional training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - in progress
Practical experience since 2017
Since 2021 - work within outpatient psychiatric care and psychological counseling
4 February 2026
18:00 (CET)
Online via Zoom · open educational lecture