Busy lives often lead to stress, but for the millions of Australians enduring week after week of lockdown, working, schooling from home, a different kind of fatigue has set in.

Burnout rates are on the rise and some professions like health care are staring down the barrel of a mass exodus of workers.

In his new book, Burnout, Professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales and founder of the Black Dog Institute, Gordon Parker, explains why this condition is considerably worse than just being a 'bit stressed'.

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