India, April 19 -- A Bengaluru woman has sparked an online conversation about burnout and work-life balance after sharing her personal experience of losing her job. Taking to Instagram, the woman named Nidhi posted a video reflecting on how deeply her work had taken over her life.

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In the video, she said, "I got fired from my job, and the things I realized after are so scary! I treated my job as my entire life. I stopped taking care of myself, I stopped socializing, I stopped going out, I stopped working out, I stopped eating healthy food, I stopped meeting my friends. My entire world revolved around meetings, deadlines, an...