Is your battery dead? High workload? Are your nerves shot? Are you experiencing the first physical complaints? Then you feel like the five protagonists in this book: You are on the verge of a burnout - or are already in the middle of it. Johannes Storch, Dieter Olbrich and Maja Storch show that this is not a one-way street in this well-founded yet entertaining guide. Using the five exemplary persons, they show possible courses of a burn-out illness and new ways out of the exhaustion trap. Experience shows that there is not one method or one way that is good for all those affected. Each and every affected person must realistically assess him/herself and find his/her own way out. The prevention program "Health Promotion and Self-Regulation through Individual Target Analysis" (G.