Symptoms and phases
Symptoms and Phases of a Burnout Syndrome
„Who burns out must have once burnt brightly“
A burnout syndrome often takes a typical course. After an enthusiastic phase the commitment stagnates and a gradual frustration arises together with a further reduction of personal commitment. The result is apathy and the development of a depression and desperation. Already in the first stages physical grievances can be observed whose intensity increases with the course of the burnout syndrome.
An early recognition of who is at risk or already affected is an important measure to effectively influence the course of the syndrome and to support the individual as well as the company.
The DZIP offers a special analytical method of early recognition and reliable preventive measures for the individual as well as for the company.
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Warning symptoms of a burnout syndrome
- Warning symptoms at the first stage (enthusiasm)
- Increased commitment to professional goals
- Career plays major role in life
- Hyperactivity
- Increased, unremunerated commitment
- Disregard of own needs
- Suppression of failures
- Limitation of social contacts to one section
- Exhaustion
- Chronic fatigue
- Lack of energy
- Reduced commitment (stagnation)
- Turning completely to one area after a while can result in the exact opposite (withdrawal)
- The person concerned loses all positive feeling towards people around them
- Stereotyping
- Need of distance and avoidance of social contacts, the client/colleague becomes the enemy
- Accusations
- Negative attitude towards and neglect of work
- Increased withdrawal, also from private issues
- Increased demands towards environment; frequent feeling of being taken advantage of and not appreciated
- Emotional reactions (frustration)
- Disillusionment and renunciation of important tasks
- Accusations
- Depression towards oneself or aggresion towards others
- Guilt
- Decreased self-esteem
- Aggressions blockade changes and often lead to outbursts of fury
- Weakening
- Reduced commitment grows into major reductions of input (visible at work)
- Disorganisation
- Insecurities
- Problems with complex tasks and decisions
- Decreased cognitive capacity
- Decreased motivation and creativity
- Work is often reduced to the most necessary
- Apathy
- Cutbacks at work and emotional, mental and social apathy
- Indifference, loneliness, disinterest
- perception exclusively centered around own personality
- Problems with social contacts: avoidance of social contacts, excessive attachment to one particular, constant search for interesting contacts
Psychological consequences of a burnout syndrome
- Loss of joy and optimism
- Feeling of worthlessness
- Conflicts with colleagues, partners and family members
- Immersion in a desperate and narrowing world of senselessness and hopelessness
Psychosomatic reactions
- Weakening of immunological system and frequent infections
- Tensions
- Insomnia
- Circulatory dysfunctions
- Metabolic dysfunctions
- Eating disorders
- Drug consumption
- Chronic fatigue and enduring inefficiency
Desperation in the final stadium of burnout syndrome
- Existential desperation
- Negative attitude towards life
- Feeling of helplessness
- Feeling of complete senselessness
- Suicide
