Beyond burnout: anxiety, insecurity, and depression-related feelings in communications work
Work is rarely just work.
For many communicators, the job sits at the intersection of urgency, visibility, judgment, and change. They are expected to translate uncertainty into certainty, respond to crises with composure, manage stakeholder expectations, protect organizational reputation, and adapt quickly to unstable budgets and teams, evolving technology, and unclear career pathways.
Those pressures can carry an emotional cost.