In the previous text, “the origin of exhaustion?”, We talked about the story of Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberger. Now is the time to better understand your discovery of seemingly mundane symptoms: anxiety and fatigue. That’s where we will talk about burnout.
The competitive labor market, the technologies that allow to resume tasks at home, the constant availability that goes beyond the usual workload, the increase in the levels of internal and external demands, all these factors end up being used as justification to defend the idea. that it is normal to feel stress at work.
- In the future we will see whether this idea makes sense or not.
- For now the important question is the price of believing in it.
- Anxiety can be the main product of concerns about work activity and the availability of time beyond working hours (and acquired mental capacity) for employment-related issues.
- Similarly.
- Fatigue resulting from long or exhausting journeys.
- Both physically and mentally.
- Becomes constant.
Both reactions can be considered natural reflexes of hard work, which is common, however, if we live in an age that understands fatigue and anxiety in this way, how do we know when they have crossed some kind of line?
Modern habits and new technologies created a large gray area where before there was a clear line, separating in black and white the personal and professional side, this can be the great mystery and also the key point, making this separation can be the same as finding answers (or new questions).
Occupational fatigue, of course, as much as problems are a cause for concern, but what is perceived in reports and cases is that pollution of occupational reflexes in personal life is the great indication that something more serious may be on the way.
Endless anxiety can lead to sudden mood swings, sleep disturbances and intolerance. The price charged for constant fatigue is the feeling of exhaustion, the theft of energy for daily tasks or even for leisure.
Taken together, all of these effects end up causing a lack of concentration and memory loss, which can lead to decreased productivity. In this case, the supreme irony: does the consequence become a cause?Attention to work leads to poor performance at work. These are the main symptoms of Burnout, a psychological disorder whose main characteristic is the state of emotional tension and chronic stress that can lead the person to complete exhaustion.
A great danger is that the affected person is often the last to realize the critical situation in which they find themselves and that they are often reluctant to seek or accept support. Now that you know what Burnout is, we ask you: Do you know or have you met someone who has experienced something similar?Is there anyone in your work environment who’s going through this right now?
Leave your answers in the comments.