como a inteligência artificial destruiu minha sanidade

Key wellness strategies, self-care techniques, and productivity lessons

• Recognize burnout signs early

  • Couldn’t sleep or eat properly; cried during meetings
  • Couldn’t go to the office because leaving meetings would trigger crying
  • Developed anxiety attacks (waking up at night)
  • Felt persistently overwhelmed and trapped in the work demands

• Get professional mental health support

  • Sought help because “it couldn’t be something wrong” internally
  • Consulted medical professionals (checked vitamins; talked to cardiologists/psychiatrists)
  • Started therapy and medication
  • Continued treatment for stabilization (planned more months of medication and therapy)

• Use structured financial planning to reduce pressure

  • Built an emergency plan to be able to not work for ~6 months
  • Treated this as a privileged but crucial period to protect mental health
  • This allowed time to pause, treat burnout, and reconnect with themselves

• Create a clear “exit plan” with a scheduled quit date

  • Set a specific quit day after planning and treatment steps
  • Reported feeling relief on the day of resignation, even though the burnout started earlier

• Reduce dehumanization and isolation

  • Noted how the shift from collaborative problem-solving to AI prompting removed mentorship and human learning
  • Felt lack of empathy toward junior staff (easier to assign tasks than teach/support)
  • Lacked in-person human connection, which worsened stress

• Reframe “productivity” expectations

  • Critiqued the idea that AI would create large productivity gains without additional oversight
  • Highlighted the extra burden:
    • continuously validating AI output
    • managing more complex deliverables
    • handling more projects at once with fewer humans

• Rebuild identity beyond work

  • Realized their goal shifted from ambition (“conquer the whole world”) to peace
  • After quitting, intended to explore a new routine and hobbies (crafts, escape the office) while figuring out next steps

• Give yourself time to adapt

  • Expected it to feel surreal and needed gradual scheduling instead of overloading the calendar
  • Followed psychologist guidance to pace recovery and avoid cramming too much back in

Main “AI at work” wellbeing insights (what broke them)

• AI increased output but also increased pressure, monitoring, and emotional strain
• Constant “more, better, faster” culture became harder to sustain
• The environment reduced mentoring/teaching and replaced collaboration with prompt-driven work

Presenters / Sources

• Brolete (the video’s speaker/creator)