According to the World Health Organization, burnout is the direct result of “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Sound familiar?
, the agency that guides many health providers and organizations, burnout is the direct result of “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Sound familiar?
The WHO says that burnout can be diagnosed if a patient exhibits the following symptoms: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job; and reduced professional efficacy. While the new definition only begins to explain the complex condition,that this acknowledgement will help bring more awareness to the issue, as well as legitimize the feelings of those who suffer from burnout.
“Sixty to 90% of doctor visits are due to stress, which evokes a series of genetic and physiological changes that can be tremendously harmful to health if sustained, including increased heart rate, blood pressure, breath rate, and muscle tension,” explains Herbert Benson, M.D., a professor of mind and body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, who underlines that work-related stress is further exacerbated by.
To begin tackling chronic work-related stress, Benson recommends building up a “relaxation response,” a term that describes the opposite of the fight-or-flight response that stress causes within the body, which he coined in hisof the same name. You can start by doing 10 to 20 minutes of a regenerative daily activity, such as exercise or meditation, to break the chain of everyday thinking, he explains.
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