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11 min read Over the past year, the environment of the pandemic has presented huge challenges for everyone. This had led to intense fatigue, cynicism, a feeling of ineffectiveness â the so-called burnout trio
âAre you working more now and enjoying it less? Must you force yourself to do routine things? Are you listless, bored, constantly seeking excitement? Would you rather be somewhere else? Do you drink more than you used to?â
If you answered yes to any of the above, the German-American psychologist Dr Herbert J Freudenberger warned readers in 1980, you were in danger of what he called âburnoutâ, a syndrome he had first identified among volunteers at a drug clinic.
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When Allana turned fourteen, the limits of her world shrank to the four corners of her bed. A heart condition kept her between hospital and home. She could not attend school or make friends. She was lonely. She could not live like a normal fourteen-year-old.
At the same time, Allana played
RuneScape, an irreverent, medieval MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing game. She was Miss Misty, on an adventure through Gielinor.
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At first, she had bobbed about, chasing butterflies with an empty jar. Even for the time,
RuneScapeâs graphics were basic â the fields and roads of its pastoral world were flat single shades of green and brown. Its avatars resembled Playmobil, with smoothed faces, colourful capes and dinky swords. But, In Gielinor, Allana felt the world that had been closed off to her begin to unfurl again with possibility. She could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, chase cows in the evening, and slay monsters after dinne