Mental Health UK's latest Burnout Report found that two in five workers aged 18-24 took time off this year due to stress, nearly double the rate overall. This isn't about young workers being less resilient — it's about money worries, redundancy fears, isolation, and an early-career stigma that keeps struggling hidden. This piece also looks at Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs), a genuinely useful, confidential resource many workers don't realise they already have.