People who lead an active lifestyle and who communicate with people a lot, make the impression of the livers, who are constantly busy with a whole bunch of things. From morning till night, not one dozen clients, patients or visitors pass through them, and for the evening, for example, a noisy friendly party is scheduled. For sleep, for people engrossed in work and social activities, sometimes there are less than eight hours recommended by doctors. The merciless regime of "catching up everywhere" sooner or later leads to exhaustion.
They are subject to psychological overwork and people are less active professionally. So-called emotional burnout can happen, for example, with a mother of many children, who only deals with households and children. Stress can lead to failure of the whole body, because of the emotional overheating is not insured by anyone. Even the most energetic.
Overheating can be different.
Psychologists distinguish between professional and emotional burnout, although both of these manifestations are interrelated. A person sooner or later runs the risk of encountering a problem when he suffers long stresses, the roots of which are in excess of communication.
There are a number of reasons that can cause a syndrome of professional burnout, among them:
- Close and constant communication with people, mainly in difficult situations. At the same time, at-risk groups include doctors (especially resuscitators, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators), employees of service providers who receive complaints, sellers, as well as managerial managers and emergency workers;
- Excessive attraction of a person to the needs of clients (visitors, patients), a desire, to whatever help, too deep sympathy and empathy for others;
- Dependence on external evaluation. When the achievement of the result is not immediately apparent: employees of admission commissions, state institutions, teachers, educators, therapists, sellers, remuneration, which does not depend on sales;
- Lack of professional motivation (when each employee is one-on-one with his production tasks, and remuneration does not depend on the results of work and efforts);
- Conflicts and competition within the team;
- Imbalance in the internal values of a person, when work is placed first, and the rest (family, rest, friendship, self-improvement and health) is oppressed because of time constraints.
There are three phases of burnout:
- Stress. Conflicts with colleagues and management, the desire to change jobs, all customers seem heavy, waiting for trouble;
- Saving of emotions. Attempts to reduce the time of communication with the client, working hours and duties in general, do not take work to heart, communicate solely "on the case," attempts not to show interest in the personalities of others, no one at work wants to hear and see, the position "from me here nothing depends ";
- Exhaustion. The inability to give customers and colleagues feedback, even when needed, is not a perception of the mood of other people, work "on the machine," constant irritation, a sharp contrast with the way it was worked before.
That should alert.
All these factors cause not only professional burnout, but also emotional. Fatigue, constant struggle with a dream and desire to retire are only a few alarming signs.
Among other symptoms, mood worsening, feelings of guilt for real or imaginary mistakes, outbursts of aggression, cynicism and indifference towards colleagues, clients and primarily the family.
Other symptoms include sleep disorders, obsessive thoughts, scrolling mentally at moments in which one could act differently or say. There - slowing down the pace of work, reducing care and productivity, which later leads to unwillingness to perform their duties in general.
Among the serious signs of burnout are situations where work supplants everything else ("taken" home on weekdays and on weekends, is the main topic of conversation), when fatigue, apathy, disappointment come to replace the former energy. Even the development of diseases is possible (remember, unhealthy spirit - unhealthy and the body?), Starting from frequent ARI, ending with the appearance of hypertension and heart problems.
Obviously, the absence of an outlet for negative emotions and the effects of stress carries little pleasure. If you notice some of these symptoms, it shows at least two things.
First, you need rest. The second is to learn correctly, to distribute mental and physical forces.
Burn and not burn.
In our hyper-fast world, it's not too difficult to burn out. Experts say: the deeper the depletion of internal batteries, the more serious measures are needed to restore the charge of vivacity. For prevention, experts are boldly advised not to go to work, which does not like, be yourself and express only real feelings. However, in crisis conditions of unemployment such measures may seem almost inaccessible.
If it does not work out, then you just need to relax, learn to meditate, come up with a personal defensive philosophy, practice deep rest methods with full muscle and respiratory relaxation.
It is not a fashionable oriental exotic, but a survival condition. There are many different methods, the main thing is to choose and practice, because if the tension has accumulated, one must find a way to throw it off.
Rest on the nature prevents emotional burnout, so people who want to protect themselves from the syndrome of emotional and professional burnout, experts provide such tips:
- Formulate and write on paper your own personal goals (different from professional ones) - and achieve them. Remember, work is a means, not a goal.
- Communicate out of work. Find a hobby that can unite you with friends, family .
- Do sport.
- Go on vacation and relax on the weekends.
- Correctly to plan working hours and not to take work home.
- Take responsibility for your good mood
- Try to treat work as a game.
- There is an opinion that the work should be changed every seven years. Maybe it's worth thinking about?
For those who have already noticed disturbing beacons that interfere with normal living, working and communicating with people, the therapist recommends:
- Once again, re-read the tips outlined above, they concern you, first of all!
- Take a time-out - to change the situation as much as possible.
- Write down the pros and cons of the current work, it will help more detached and objectively assess the situation.
- If you decide to change jobs - change, but not the same in the next office.
- If there are symptoms such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, seek qualified help, since a change in the place of work in such cases is unlikely to be effective.
In addition, experts advise to visit nature more often, because mountains, ponds and forests contribute to relaxation and restoration of vitality. Travel to the garden or homestead will also help - people who often work on the ground are also less inclined to burn out.
The main thing is to unload. Screaming under the bridge, quarreling in the minibus - all this provided that there is no feeling of guilt and aversion to yourself. Burnout is a serious problem, but solvable. Just need to have a desire to get rid of it or prevent it when you admit that your comfort is important, then everything is decided.