Health: Career burnout syndrom

Ongoing stress for longer periods of time can develop to a burnout syndrom, which  oftenly can happen to people, who work too much in their professional life, like managers, doctors, politicians.

Career burnout develops slowly over months and years, but then can suddenly cause a breakdown. Don`t wait so long, but take early counter action.


Common characteristics are:

• exhaustion,
• cynicism
• inefficacy at work and in one's personal life

Common warning signs of career burnout are:

• Feeling depressed all the time
• Lacking energy
• lacking desire to achieve
• Decreasing productivity
• Being bored

• Feeling anger and resentment in the workplace
• Abusing alcohol and drugs, like cocaine, the drug of managers
• Experiencing sleeping problems
• Decreased ability to relax

If you experience some of those signals, then take direct action. Restructure your life.

• Take more time to relax.
• Cut down all activities, which are not really needed.
• Take longer holidays ( 3 weeks at least ).
• Take professional advice from a good psychologist or if you are already drug dependent,   from  a  Psychiatrist