Burnout syndrome needs greater recognition, and the World Health Organization (WHO) will finally give you the qualification it deserves, so it will move from a simple medical condition to a professional syndrome.
Thus, it will be considered a work-related illness, thus favoring the management of absences from work and even disabilities.
- However.
- There are those who do not see this news as completely positive.
- Critical voices have a different perspective.
Burnout? As a mental disorder arising from poor work, a toxic work environment or an exploiting boss involves paying attention to another relevant aspect. Exhaustion at work shall not be resolved exclusively by taking medication or granting leave to the worker.
The problem would disappear if the working conditions were different. Still, it is understandable that WHO wants to take the first step and reclassify this common psychological reality. It’s a positive thing.
However, this recognition should be the beginning of a new awareness, it is true that it will be possible to offer better clinical resources and better support to workers, but the root of the problem is not the employee, it is in the precariousness of the labor market.
Despite these somewhat skeptical controversies and voices, it must be admitted: this is good news, because it is the beginning of a change and it is also the recognition of an undeniable fact: the exhaustion and stress caused by certain work environments completely reduce our quality of work. Life.
According to WHO’s own research, psychological exhaustion occurs when the demands of a job far exceed rewards, recognition and moments of relaxation.
Burnout syndrome will appear in the Next International Classification of Diseases (CIE-11) of the World Health Organization (WHO), so it will happen in 2022.
Will this syndrome be included in the section? Associated problems?unemployment and will also receive the code QD85.
As you can see, the new ranking is still in a few years, but this certainly represents recognition of a reality that until now did not exist or was vague.
In addition, statistical data indicate that burnout syndrome is already an epidemic. Christina Maslach, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USAUSA, she’s one of the leading burnout experts.
He began studying this phenomenon in the 1970s and today sees an increase in this reality. Burnout syndrome is often devastating: it stifts people’s ambitions, idealism, and notion of value.
Dr. Armita Golkar of Karolinska University in Sweden conducted a 2014 study in which she demonstrated something very significant: emotional exhaustion and negativity caused by stress at work can significantly alter a worker’s brain.
The new International Classification of Diseases (CIE-11) of 2022 will stipulate that 3 obvious symptoms must be present to diagnose this occupational disease:
Therefore, who is looking to establish this new classification is
In conclusion, this news is therefore optimistic. And it will be even more so if it is not limited to a single patch: it is of no use letting go and offering therapy to a worker if we then return him to his post under the same conditions and practices.
It is an issue that certainly deserves reflection.