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It is important to recognise the early symptoms of burnout as warning signs and to start making both personal and work-related changes in time.
BURNOUT PREVENTION
It is important to recognise the early symptoms of burnout as warning signs and to start making both personal and work-related changes in time.
Healthy habits include:
- regular physical activity
- regenerative sleep
- proper nutrition
- a supportive social network
- humour
- positive feelings
- joie de vivre
- optimism
- spirituality
In addition, taking several shorter holidays seems to be more effective in preventing burnout than taking one longer holiday per year.
(Source: vgl. Roland von Känel, 2008, Das Burnout-Syndrom: eine medizinische Perspektive, In Praxis, Band 97, S. 477 – 487, Bern)
Herbert Freudenberger and his colleague Gail North have identified the following twelve phases in the course of burnout syndrome, although their order may differ:
- The urge to prove something to oneself and others
- An extreme drive to fulfil particularly high expectations
- Overworking oneself while neglecting other personal needs and social contacts
- Overplaying or ignoring inner problems and conflicts
- Doubting one's own morals and previously important things like hobbies and friends
- Denial of emerging problems, increasing intolerance and disregard for others
- Withdrawal and reducing social contact to a minimum
- Noticeable changes in behaviour, increasing feeling of worthlessness and anxiety
- Depersonalisation through loss of contact with self and others, life becomes increasingly “mechanic"
- Inner emptiness and desperate attempts to cover up this feeling through excessive behaviour (sexuality, eating habits, alcohol and drugs)
- Depression with symptoms such as indifference, hopelessness, exhaustion and lack of perspective
- First suicidal thoughts as a way out of this situation; acute danger of mental and physical collapse
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