posted by Administrator on Apr 30
It happens at any given time to each worker, that strange negative feeling that makes your productivity low, your stress tolerance down, and your working capacity incapable of balancing out the things around you. Career experts call it career burnout.
According to Mark Gorkin, a licensed clinical social worker, burnout is “the gradual process by which a person, in response to prolonged stress and physical, mental, and emotional strain, detaches from work and other meaningful relationships. The result is lowered productivity, cynicism, confusion…a feeling of being drained, having nothing more to give.”
Burnout attacks gradually through a series of physical, mental and emotional challenges. There are four stages of burnout based on the resources provided by Gorkin:
1. Physical, mental and emotional exhaustion
2. Shame and doubt.
3. Cynicism and callousness.
4. Failure, helplessness and crisis.
To learn more about them, click here.
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