Burnout
„Burnout is a process of depletion, an exhaustion of physical and mental reserves.“
Herbert Freudenberger, New York, 1974
A burnout syndrome is a state of explicit emotional and/or physical exhaustion which brings reduced performance. It often starts with idealistic enthusiasm and goes over frustrating experiences to disillusionment and apathy, psychosomatic illnesses and depressions or agressivity as well as an increased risk of addiction. Burnout can strike at all levels of society – students, academics, unemployed and retired people have been know to fall ill from it.
It is not the worst amongst us who risk suffering from burnout syndrome
„Burnout is a syndrome of exhaustion which under a constant worsening can lead up to total inability to work and which next to external factors depends on the way in which one is able to cope with pressure.“
Mathias Burisch, 2006
Professions frequently affected by burnout syndrome from a to z
Addiction therapists, adult teachers, coaches, dentists, doctors, educators, executives of clinics and rehabilitation centres, hospital pharmacists, housewives, helpdesk workers, kindergarden teachers, lawyers, librarians, managers, motivation therapists, nurses, parents in children´s villages, parents of autistic or otherwise diabled children, policemen, priests, psychotherapists, school therapists, social workers, speech therapists, stewards, stewardesses, teachers, therapists of disabled children, welfare workers and youth workers.
