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That matters, because burnout symptoms are common among Dutch employees and are still on the rise, and when you know what you are dealing with, you can better see when to ask for help.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/stress-test\/\">The BioProfile stress scan<\/a> measures how much stress you are carrying and gives you an indication of where you stand today. This is self-insight, to see where you stand and to help you make better lifestyle choices. The scan is not a diagnosis. Finding out what is going on is a job for a doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-takeaways is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In short<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The WHO describes burnout as chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Its three features are exhaustion, growing distance from or cynicism about your work, and doing your work less well.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>In 2025, 21 per cent of Dutch employees reported burnout symptoms. Ten years earlier, it was 13 per cent.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Burnout and depression often go together. Even so, a review of 105 studies concludes that they are two different conditions.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>A stress scan shows how much stress you are carrying today and gives you a starting point. It is self-insight. It is not a diagnosis.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-toc is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-toclabel wp-block-paragraph\">Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-is-een-burn-out-precies\">What exactly is burnout?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-is-een-burn-out-symptomen-op-een-rij\">What is burnout? The symptoms at a glance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#hoe-veelvoorkomend-burn-outklachten-zijn\">How common burnout symptoms are<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#burn-out-of-depressie\">Burnout or depression?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-er-in-je-hoofd-gebeurt\">What happens in your head<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-burn-out-op-termijn-kan-betekenen-voor-je-lichaam\">What burnout can mean for your body in the long run<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-je-zelf-kunt-doen\">What you can do yourself<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wanneer-je-naar-de-huisarts-gaat\">When to see your GP<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-de-stressscan-meet-en-wat-niet\">What the stress scan measures and what it does not<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#samengevat\">In summary<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-is-een-burn-out-precies\">What exactly is burnout?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization describes burnout as a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It has three features: feeling drained or exhausted, a growing mental distance from your work or feeling negative and cynical about it, and doing your work less well.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> The WHO does not classify burnout as a medical condition. The WHO calls burnout an occupational phenomenon and keeps the term for work. Pressure in other areas of life falls outside it.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts, the Dutch GPs&#8217; website for patients, puts it in plain words. You have a lot of tension in your life, you cannot manage to cope with that tension, and this has been going on for more than six months.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> So burnout lasts well beyond one bad week. It is a long period in which the pressure keeps being greater than what your mind and body can carry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-is-een-burn-out-symptomen-op-een-rij\">What is burnout? The symptoms at a glance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts lists these symptoms: tiredness and exhaustion, poor sleep, irritability, trouble concentrating, headaches, dizziness, chest pain, stomach complaints, and the feeling that you are losing control over your life.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> Much of that list is physical. You feel burnout in your body as well as in your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts tells burnout apart from being overstressed by how long it lasts. With burnout, the tension has lasted for more than six months, and recovery takes longer than when you are overstressed.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hoe-veelvoorkomend-burn-outklachten-zijn\">How common burnout symptoms are<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Nationale Enqu\u00eate Arbeidsomstandigheden, the national working conditions survey by TNO and CBS, 21 per cent of employees reported burnout symptoms in 2025, up from 19 per cent in 2023. In 2015 the figure was 13 per cent. More than a third of employees, 37 per cent, say more measures are needed against psychosocial workload.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup> Put simply, about one in five employees notices the signs, and that share is higher than it was ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"burn-out-of-depressie\">Burnout or depression?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A review of 105 studies with almost 125,000 participants looked at how burnout relates to depression and anxiety. People with more burnout symptoms clearly also had more depressive symptoms, and the same held for anxiety. Even so, the authors conclude that burnout, depression and anxiety are different conditions.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> For you, this means the three can overlap and resemble each other. Telling them apart is a question for your GP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-er-in-je-hoofd-gebeurt\">What happens in your head<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Swedish study compared 40 people with work-related burnout, average age 38, with 70 healthy people, average age 33. The burnout group had been working 60 to 70 hours a week for several years. When asked to dampen their reaction to unpleasant images, the people with burnout managed this less well, as measured by a stronger startle reflex. In their brains, the connection between the amygdala, an emotional centre, and parts of the front of the brain that help regulate emotions was weaker than in the comparison group.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> In plain words: the brake on strong feelings worked less well. This is one study comparing two groups, so it shows a difference between those groups and does not show what came first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-burn-out-op-termijn-kan-betekenen-voor-je-lichaam\">What burnout can mean for your body in the long run<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A review of 36 studies that followed people over a longer period found that burnout came before later type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, long-term fatigue, pain in muscles and joints, depressive symptoms, and the use of antidepressants or other psychotropic medication. In a Danish study that followed employees in care and services for three years, those with the most burnout symptoms were absent on average 13.6 days a year, against 5.4 days for those with the fewest.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup> In short, people with burnout were more likely to run into health problems and sick days later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-je-zelf-kunt-doen\">What you can do yourself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts advises you to take good care of yourself and live healthily, to try to relax, and to keep a regular daily rhythm: get up, eat and go to bed at the same times every day. Ask the people around you for help and support. Sometimes you can keep working or studying in shorter stretches, and sometimes it is better to stop for a while.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> You can read more ideas for easing stress in daily life in <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/what-helps-with-stress\/\">what helps with stress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wanneer-je-naar-de-huisarts-gaat\">When to see your GP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell your GP if you think you might have burnout. If the problems lie at work, talk to your employer and contact the occupational doctor.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> Thuisarts does not give a separate list of urgent warning signs for burnout.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-de-stressscan-meet-en-wat-niet\">What the stress scan measures and what it does not<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stress scan measures how much stress you are carrying today and gives you a baseline. The scan does not tell burnout apart from overstrain, depression or anxiety. The scan is not a diagnosis. Repeat the scan later and you will have two numbers to compare instead of a vague feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"samengevat\">In summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnout is chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, marked by exhaustion, distance from your work and doing your work less well.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> The symptoms are both mental and physical and last longer than six months.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> About one in five Dutch employees report these symptoms.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup> Burnout overlaps with depression and anxiety but is a different condition,\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> goes together in the brain with a weaker brake on strong emotions,\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> and can later be followed by health problems.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup> A regular daily rhythm and support from others help,\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> and your GP is the place to go if you think you have burnout.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-cta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measure where you start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Answer the questions in the stress scan and your stress score appears in your dashboard. What the stress scan measures, and what the scan is based on, is on the scan page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/stress-test\/\">Start the stress scan<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-ctamicro wp-block-paragraph\">Free, about 3 minutes. An analysis of your answers, never a diagnosis. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/free-health-check-tests\/\">All health scans<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--wash is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is burnout and which symptoms go with it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts lists tiredness and exhaustion, poor sleep, irritability, trouble concentrating, headaches, dizziness, chest pain, stomach complaints and the feeling that you are losing control over your life. With burnout, the tension has lasted for more than six months.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What should you not do when you have burnout?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts turns it around and says what helps: take good care of yourself, live healthily, try to relax, keep a regular daily rhythm and ask the people around you for support. Sometimes working in shorter stretches is possible, and sometimes it is better to stop for a while.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the difference between burnout and depression?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a review of 105 studies, there was a clear link between the two, but according to the authors they are different conditions.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> The WHO links burnout to chronic stress at work.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> Which of the two applies to you is a question for your GP.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens in your head with burnout?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Swedish study, people with burnout found it harder to dampen their reaction to unpleasant images, and the connection between the brain&#8217;s emotion centre and the areas that help steer that centre was weaker than in the comparison group.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is the stress scan a burnout test?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stress scan measures how much stress you are carrying today. The scan does not tell burnout apart from overstrain or depression. The scan is not a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--beige bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bronnen\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srclead wp-block-paragraph\">Every source below was checked on the day this article was published. The numbering follows the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list bp-blog-refs\">\n\n<li>World Health Organization. Burn-out an &#8216;occupational phenomenon&#8217;: International Classification of Diseases. WHO news release, 28 May 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases\">who.int<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Arboportaal (Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid). Burnout symptoms among employees keep rising. News item, 20 April 2026, on the Nationale Enqu\u00eate Arbeidsomstandigheden 2025 by TNO and CBS. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arboportaal.nl\/actueel\/nieuws\/2026\/04\/20\/burn-outklachten-onder-werknemers-blijven-toenemen\">arboportaal.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Koutsimani P, Montgomery A, Georganta K. The relationship between burnout, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019;10:284. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.00284\">doi.org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2019.00284<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>NHG. Ik heb een burn-out. Thuisarts.nl, accessed 2026-10-01. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/burn-out\/ik-heb-burn-out\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Golkar A, Johansson E, Kasahara M, Osika W, Perski A, Savic I. The influence of work-related chronic stress on the regulation of emotion and on functional connectivity in the brain. PLoS ONE, 2014;9(9):e104550. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550\">doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Salvagioni DAJ, Melanda FN, Mesas AE, Gonzalez AD, Gabani FL, Andrade SM. Physical, psychological and occupational consequences of job burnout: a systematic review of prospective studies. PLoS ONE, 2017;12(10):e0185781. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0185781\">doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0185781<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>NHG. Ik heb een burn-out, section on what you can do yourself. Thuisarts.nl, accessed 2026-10-01. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/burn-out\/ik-heb-burn-out\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Also read<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-related is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/what-is-stress\/\">What is stress: what switches your body on, when it stays switched on, and what a stress scan measures<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/stress-symptoms-what-stress-does-to-your-body\/\">Stress symptoms: what stress does in your body, how common the symptoms are and what a stress scan measures<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/burnout-symptoms-which-complaints-are-part-of-it\/\">Burnout symptoms: which complaints are part of it and what a questionnaire can and cannot tell you<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/chronic-stress-symptoms-what-your-body-shows\/\">Chronic stress symptoms: what long-term stress does to your body and what a stress scan measures<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/what-helps-with-stress\/\">What helps with stress: what has been measured, what the GP advises and what a stress scan shows you<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Written by<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-author is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/author-jesse-round-320.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse van der Velde\" class=\"wp-image-4815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/author-jesse-round-320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/author-jesse-round-320-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/author-jesse-round-320-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-authorid is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-authorrole wp-block-paragraph\">Founder of BioProfile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-authorname wp-block-paragraph\">Jesse van der Velde<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-authorbody is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-authorbio wp-block-paragraph\">Jesse van der Velde has been guiding people to a new body and optimal health since 2006, and has written or co-written fifteen books on nutrition and health. 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