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Burnout
By Lonneke | April 20, 2008
Mental exhaustion and overstrain through unusual tiredness a more frequently common problem in the business world. Perhaps you had one yourself or you know someone who ever had a burnout (or have). A burnout expresses itself in wane and cynicism. This problem, the so been named burnout, can become a real serious personal drama. A burnout happens most often with people with a large involvement. These people have earlier burden of work stress.
This will not say that everybody with a large involvement is subject for burnouts. You must have a weak spot for this and this can have several causes. These can be for example negative things that are happing at your work or your private life.
The deeper lying causes are often much more drastic and historic and might relate our education, emotional damages and unfilled wishes and ambitions.
Actually a burnout is nothing more or less than a warnings signal of our body. Your body can’t take the psychological pressure that reaches us of all sides any longer, it’s become too much and the body reacts to this.
How do you recognize a burnout?
If you want to recognize a burnout early you’ll need to be alert to the signals below, only then you can prevent worsening.
· Bad sleep
· Waking up earlier
· Tired very quickly
· Restless and hurried feeling
· listless
· concentration problems
· Vague physical complaints
· Addictive behaviour
· Lot of worry and puzzle over
· Forgetful
Frequently it starts with overwrought and overstrained feelings. The characteristics are mostly the same: bad sleeping, tiredness, concentration problems and depressive/low spirit. When we do nothing about it, these symptoms can lead to an exhausted feeling.
Complete burnout
This variant of a burnout is quite serious. As person you feels emotional exhausted, weary (nights of 12-14 hour its no exception), and the pleasure in work and life is (totally) disappeared. Sometimes this goes coupled with other physical complaints. Mostly a burnout is assigned at work, but quite often privately-factors plays also a role.
Prevent
To prevent a burnout we must do something with the causes. Only relaxing is not enough, we must change our live and way of thinking to prevent worsening. How about work? And our relationships? What do we do with the plenty of choices that we need to make?
Cure
To cure of a burnout we need to go a step further. Finally we’ll must be aware of our subconscious, to become process of our unprocessed experiences and there for the cure of a real burnout is most often a good accompaniment of a physician and/or a psychologist indispensable. Finally we need to change our total life: How we work, what we eat, our leisure activities and other (business) activities.
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