Friday August 19, 2016.
Holidays are not the solution to burnout, which is the expression not of great fatigue, but of mental and moral distress.
The holidays shift the problem of burnout
German and Swiss researchers say this in a benchmark journal, Frontiers in Psychology, in a study published this summer. If the holidays provide a solution to the problems of physical or nervous fatigue caused by overwork, burn-out is of a different nature.
Professional burn-out is in fact the mismatch between his desires, his expectations, and the work and the conditions in which it is carried out. The stress induced by this hiatus disappears during the holidays (as long as you can disconnect from your work), but resumes as soon as you get home. And the patient (who sometimes ignores himself) to suffer from headaches, stomach aches, musculoskeletal, the morning of the recovery …
Burn-out: holidays can help raise awareness
The holidays therefore only provide the brain of the person suffering from burnout a break, a respite, but not a solution. However, during these days of “break”, the mind, relieved of stress, can gain the upper hand, and help the victim to gain the upper hand, and dare to take decisions that they would not have taken otherwise …
To find out more: OCD, burn-out, depression … Update on mental illnesses
