ADHD Burnout in Demanding Jobs: Why Nurses, Teachers, Lawyers, and First Responders Hit the Wall First

The shift was fine. The code, the furious parent, the filing deadline, the call that went sideways: you handled all of it. Then everyone went home and you were still there, staring at the charts, the grading, the six-tenths of an hour you cannot account for. For nurses, teachers, lawyers, and first responders with ADHD, the crisis is rarely what burns you out. It is what comes after.