Burnout and Social Isolation

I found this article at usnews.com about job burnout called 4 Ways to Burn Out, Effort-Free.  I really think it applies to life in general, not just workplace burnout.  I find that I quit caring about things when there's no one around, and that demotivates me from wanting to do anything at all.  From the article:

The more time you can spend in mind-numbing isolation, poking at your keyboard and reading through your spam folder, the better to reach a state of burnout. 

 Later in the article, it explains why isolation leads to burnout:

A sense of being isolated comes when solitary workers are not getting necessary support from supervisors and peers, says Jay Mulki . . . "That leads to stress in the sense that a person feels that he's not visible, nobody cares about him, his achievements are not known, nobody cares about whether he has done his work or not," Mulki says.

 Here's another good article on burnout and isolation: Watch Out For Burnout - If You Are a Solo Practitioner, It Can Begin With a Sense of Isolation.

It's kind of frustrating to read about this because I always end up some sort of difficulty in social situations one way or another.