Doaholics: The Hidden Addiction Behind Modern Success is built around the uncomfortable truth that people aren’t burning out because they’re busy, they’re burning out because they don’t know who they are. Across more than ten thousand clinical hours, psychotherapist Rob Stanley kept meeting the same person in different bodies: productive, successful, and fundamentally unfulfilled.

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As he traced these patterns, they began to point to a new psychological category—the doaholic. A doaholic isn’t addicted to work; they’re addicted to doing. Their self-worth rises and falls with whatever they produce next. And when there’s nothing left to do, they’re left without a clear sense of who they are.

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Told through four interwoven client narratives—Arya, a management consultant unraveling on stress leave; Devon, a longtime city administrator confronting the gaps in his emotional awareness; Lucas, an executive whose mystery illness reveals itself as burnout; and Danielle, a new mother navigating past trauma in the midst of daily exhaustion—Doaholics blends vivid, in-the-room storytelling with clear psychological insight to reveal the emotional machinery beneath modern achievement.

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Fast-paced, clinically grounded, and deeply human, Doaholics arrives at a moment when burnout is everywhere—and offers a new way to understand work, happiness, and who we are when the doing stops.