Your Hidden Burnout Style: The Bottler

You keep it together on the outside — but inside, you're carrying a weight no one sees.

You bottle it up. Push it down. You tell yourself, “It’s fine.” Until it isn’t. You’re the one who holds the line until something quietly snaps.

Strengths:

  • Calm under pressure

  • High emotional control

  • Deep sense of duty

 Hidden Costs:

  • Suppressed emotions

  • Somatic stress (e.g., headaches, fatigue)

  • Feeling isolated even around others

Why You Burn Out:

You may have learned that expressing emotion isn’t safe, welcome, or useful. So you manage alone — but this comes at a cost to your mind and body.

Your Reset Shift:

Start small. You don’t need to pour everything out. But burnout eases when you name what you carry. Speaking isn’t weakness — it’s release.

Start with:

  • Identifying one feeling a day
  • Using low-pressure outlets (journaling, voice notes)
  • Letting one trusted person in

Your Next Step:

The Burnout Recovery Toolkit helps you process quietly — with reflection prompts, nervous system resets, and small safe ways to begin expressing again.

The Next Step