About
You expected the work to be hard.
You didn’t expect the workplace to be harder.
Some work is demanding by its nature:
- a busy shift
- a distressed customer or patient
- days that are simply heavy
But that’s different from:
- being short-staffed every shift
- being treated badly by someone you can’t avoid
- being asked to do something you know isn’t right
- asking for help and finding that becomes another problem to manage
Still Cracked helps you work out what’s making work so costly — and what might actually help.
What happens at work can affect you. What the workplace then does — an investigation, a process, a decision, a silence — can add to the strain.
Why Still Cracked exists
You can’t understand the impact of work without looking at the work itself.
When work starts affecting your health, the conversation can quickly turn to what you need to do: rest more, set better boundaries, manage stress, build resilience, get therapy or take time away.
Those things can help. But they are only part of the picture.
Burnout and psychological harm don’t happen in a vacuum. Workload, staffing, exposure to distress, poor support, workplace relationships, organisational culture, conflicting demands and what happens when concerns are raised can all matter.
Still Cracked exists to keep the workplace in the picture.
It helps people understand what may be happening, recognise what work has been taking from them, find ways to recover, and think more clearly about what they need next.
Because supporting yourself matters. So does understanding what you’re being asked to survive.
Still Cracked helps you
Understand
What is happening — at work and in you.
Recognise
What work has been asking, and what it has been costing.
Recover
Support your nervous system, energy and capacity without pretending recovery fixes the workplace.
Decide what comes next
Stay, change something, speak up, step back — or simply work out what you need before deciding.
About Still Cracked
What you’ll find here
Still Cracked is plain-English information about how work can affect you psychologically — and what may help.
Broader than burnout
Work can affect you in different ways.
Burnout is part of the picture, but it isn’t the only way work can take a psychological toll.
Research-informed
Grounded in evidence.
Clear about what research supports, what is still uncertain, and where the evidence is mixed.
Practical
Something you can actually use.
Plain-English information and resources to help you understand what’s happening and decide where to start.
Education, not treatment
Information, not individual advice.
No diagnosis, assessment, therapy or legal advice.
Still Cracked isn’t a substitute for individual advice from your GP, psychologist or other treating professional.
The person behind it
Suzanne Robertson
I’ve been a psychologist for more than twenty-five years. I work on the Sunshine Coast with burnout, trauma and the psychological effects of work.
What I kept seeing wasn’t only burnout. It was people whose work had cost them something real — health, confidence, sometimes a job they had been good at and cared about. And for some, dealing with what the workplace did about it became another source of strain.
My Master’s research was on burnout. At the time, much of the thinking about burnout was still centred on the individual — personality, coping, how well someone handled stress.
That has broadened a great deal since. Workload, working conditions, organisational culture and psychosocial hazards all get far more attention now.
What hasn’t gone away is the habit of treating a workplace problem as a problem with the person. Someone questions what happened and is told they’ve misread it, taken it too personally, or need to cope better.
Minimising what someone reports. Denying their experience of it. Shifting the responsibility onto them. Making their reaction the issue. None of that belongs only to families and close relationships. It can happen at work too.
Still Cracked grew out of wanting to look at the whole picture — the person, certainly, but also the work, the workplace, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Psychology support
Alongside Still Cracked, I continue to work clinically through BioPsyche, my psychology practice. I provide individual psychological support via telehealth, including for people experiencing burnout, workplace stress and psychological harm, trauma, and other mental health concerns.
Looking for individual psychological support?
Visit BioPsycheWhere to next
Where you go next depends on what you came here with.
Understand
What’s actually happening
The work, the workplace and what follows — in full, with the names for each part.
Resources
Find the right one
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Everything in one place
Workbooks and guides, all instant download.
Questions? hello@stillcracked.com
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