Burnout is a completely normal human reaction to feeling overwhelmed either in their work or personal life. It is usually characterised by emotional exhaustion, detachment and loss of motivation and feeling helpless or a sense of failure.

Trauma usually occurs when an individual experiences an overwhelming event, often involving unbearable danger and threat to life. Trauma can technically be defined as one of three things: physical injury to the body; a traumatic event; the effect of the traumatic event.