wpgtaiji:
Three strikes mate! well, this is a partial strike... Your idea as to qigong is flawed. They are ALL about balancing qi! are there some that increase qi? sure. But not to more than you are supposed to have. Acupuncture allows qi to enter the body much easier via the needle. The needle breaks the resistance of the skin.
wpgtaiji you are right. The same applies to our brain. A urban myth claims that Einstein once said that we are using only 10% of our brain (some even say only 0,0001% hahaha
). This is not true. We use 100%. But why are some people so intelligent and others not? Because most people use their brain for useless things or they think too much about their worries and so on. By balancing our qi we would be surprised how much qi actually flows through us. It may feel as if we has accumulated more than average humans. In reality we have only dissolved blockages on different levels.
Josh Young:
I know one person who had an issue with something like this and went to over 30 doctors in 5 years and did not get the right diagnosis, he then took his own blood sample and put it under a microscope and found blood parasites (lime disease and a related disease) and took photographs of the parasites in his blood and took the pictures to his doctor, a doctor who had previously said he did not have lime disease, the doctor then did finally diagnose him properly and got him on a treatment program and he has since improved. My point is that it can be very easy for doctors to miss the truth, they are only human. It has nothing to do with the system of medicine they practice.
If parasites would be the root cause of a burn out syndrome, then there are more symptoms than only fatigue. For example itching of the anus and a huge desire for sweets. Changing your eating habits could be a solution, because parasites only live in an environment which fits for them. For example if you eat carrots, garlic, onion and more fresh vegetables then you could stabilize a flora which hinders parasites to flourish.
(By the way interesting that this person did the diagnosis by himself.)
In my experience a burn out is caused by the own attitude towards work. For example if you love your work more than anything else, then you have a huge problem.
Or maybe you distract yourself with social networks during this 8 to 9 hours and this leads to blockages in the small intestine meridian. On long term it reduces the qi in the liver meridian. The solution would be to cut off all unnecessary informations inputs.
Frustration leads to stagnation in the liver meridian and then again to a lower flow in the heart meridian (less joy, lower energy).
Also you should consider to work less. The burn out is a syndrome that tells you to do less, not to do more. By practicing Qi Gong a person should be balanced again and not become a super hero who can work 12 hours without getting tired.
Regarding other therapies I prefer here homeopathy in combination with flower essences. But your need help from someone who is able to recognize the deeper patterns.