Burnout makes your job more and more exhausting, making you feel exhausted and discouraged. But you can't slow down, rest, because many people are waiting for you. Is there any way out of this? What are the ways to burn out? Also find out about the causes and symptoms of burnout!
Contents:
- Burnout symptoms
- Stages of professional burnout
- Causes of burnout
- Ways to burn out
Burnoutis a state of psychophysical exhaustion of the body, caused by the fight against long-term stress. - It is important to emphasize these two words:long-term stress- explains Katarzyna Skoczek, president of Slowlajf - Foundation Against Burnout.
- He is the prerequisite for burnout. This stress comes from a mismatch, which does not have to be directly realized. Therefore, a mismatch, resulting from a conflict of values, an excess of tasks, bad interpersonal relationships, lack of a sense of justice or the expected reward, causes stress that we struggle with.
Due to this stress, we forget to take care of ourselves and our resources. We sleep too short, eat rush and unhe althy, we lack time to build relationships with loved ones or for a quiet walk.
Burnout symptoms
We do not regenerate our intellectual, emotional and physical resources, and this leads to a state of burnout. Therefore, we should be able to recognize the signals that our body sends. And there are many symptoms of burnout, and everyone experiences it differently.
Katarzyna Skoczek suggests: - Let's see if we have a problem with insomnia, high blood pressure, gastric problems, headache, decreased immunity and chronic fatigue that does not go away after a good night's sleep or a week's sleep leave. Let's see if we feel irritated, depressed, helpless, lonely, find it difficult to concentrate, or feel reluctant to work.
It is also worth being careful with those around you. If we observe that someone does not carry out tasks that until recently did not cause him problems, his relations with colleagues are disturbed, he takes an attitudecynical, contemptuous or indifferent - let's get interested in this person, let's talk to them.
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ImportantStages of professional burnout
Christina Maslach, a long-term researcher on occupational burnout, indicates three phases of occupational burnout:
1.The stage of emotional exhaustion.Subjective sense of excessive fatigue and resource exhaustion, a sense of professional exhaustion and the inability to regenerate.
2.The stage of depersonalization and cynicism.Distancing oneself from co-workers, patients, clients, loosening the emotional bond with co-workers.
3.The stage of the lack of a sense of personal achievements and competences in connection with the performance of work.Negative assessment of professional competences, decreased sense of personal accomplishments, negative assessment of own work, lack of control over professional matters.
Worth knowingThe latest report commissioned by Staples indicates that workers in Europe suffer from burnout syndrome. As many as 91% of them are frustrated with the environment in which they work. They feel a great need to flee their workplace. Among those who are no longer able to stay in their work environment, one in five view ads on LinkedIn and 44% hide in the toilet.
The frequency of changing jobs is increasing. Research shows that people between the ages of 18 and 48 will work in an average of 11.7 jobs during their working life. "The grass on the other side is greener" - this is the principle followed by those who decide to make such a change. When they finally succeed - they are satisfied, but usually only for a short time, as many as 34% of employees feel frustrated again within six months of being hired in a new place.
Source: Biznes.newseria.pl
Causes of burnout
In the past, it was believed that burnout was primarily a threat to representatives of professions related to contact with people, helping them: doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, psychologists. According to the current knowledge, people of all professions are exposed to burnout and are influenced by factors in the workplace.
- Burnout - explains Katarzyna Skoczek - affects people of all ages. It is frightening to observe that it concerns ever younger people. Once upon a time the typical age to potentially burn out was 40+, then30+. We now meet burned out 20-year-olds. More prone to burnout are neurotic, hypersensitive, low self-esteem, passive and dependent people who perceive various situations in terms of threats rather than challenges.
Ways to burn out
Remember that you are not alone. It is worth talking to your supervisor, your family doctor, go to a psychologist, talk to a loved one. Although life shows that it is not always possible to meet understanding.
Our society is quite demanding and does not allow for weakness. Often you hear "grit your teeth, you've got a great job, don't complain." Then you have to look for another person who will understand our condition. Often times, it is necessary to talk to a good psychotherapist or group psychotherapy to help us find each other.
Or maybe a slow motion?
- Slow life is a philosophy of life that is by no means related to living at the pace of a snail, explains Katarzyna Skoczek. - Slow-moving movement exposes the value of tasting the moment, noticing the immediate surroundings, paying attention to it and thus paying attention to yourself and your emotions.
Practicing this philosophy helps you find balance. It is important to take care of all spheres of life: professional, personal, spiritual, physical. It is quite a challenge. That is why it is worth stopping, returning to contact with nature, finding yourself in a world full of information and rushing nowhere.
- The sense of this method comes from the fact that the more we take care of ourselves, the more effective we can be - says Katarzyna Skoczek. - Each of us can afford to implement the idea of Slow life precisely because we cannot afford long periods of regeneration. We want to be he althy for a long time, fully fit and happy. And that is why it is worth trying to implement your own slow life with small steps.
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