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, attention can quickly turn to what you need to do: rest more, manage stress, set better boundaries, build resilience, get therapy.
Those things can help.
But they don’t tell us whether the workload was sustainable, whether there was enough support, what you were exposed to, how you were treated, or what happened when you raised a concern.
Still Cracked keeps that part of the picture in view.
The aim isn’t to blame the workplace for everything. It is to stop pretending the workplace has nothing to do with it.
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, and my Master’s research focused on burnout.
Over that time, I kept seeing people arrive with a version of the same question:
Why am I struggling so much with work I used to be able to do?
Sometimes burnout was part of the answer. Sometimes it wasn’t.
There were people carrying unsustainable workloads, people exposed to distress day after day, people being asked to work against their values, and people dealing with what happened after they raised a concern.
And often, by the time they were looking for help, the question had somehow become what was wrong with them.
Still Cracked grew out of wanting to keep the whole picture in view: the person, the work, the workplace, and what happens when something goes wrong.
I created it to turn the psychology and research into plain-English resources people can use outside the therapy room — to understand what is happening, recover some capacity and make clearer decisions about what comes next.
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
Not sure where to start? Choose what sounds most like where you are.
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Everything in one place
Workbooks and guides, all instant download.
Questions? hello@stillcracked.com
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