Emotional burnout
4 stages of emotional burnout
- I feel drive and have a sense of an achievement and I start to work and at the same time start to ignore other spheres of my life.
- I constantly feel that I'm tired.
- I constantly feel that I'm tired and start to have diseases related to my professional activity.
- I feel that I hate my profession and other people who I work with. This is a point of no return.
Treatment
Go one stage up: from 3 to 2, from 2 to 1. If I'm at stage 3 it's useless to use treatment for stage 2.
1st stage treatment
Admit that I have an addiction then change my beliefs (only people who work a lot are successful, etc).
2nd stage treatment
Regularly have a rest. How do I know that I have enough rest? It's NOT about time (you may need 1 hour brake but I may need less or more), it's about when I feel I'm recovered. How to take a rest? Don't learn new things related to work, don't learn new languages, etc. Just forget about my work.
3rd stage treatment
Take a sabbatical. Usually it's from 3 to 6 months.
4th stage treatment
Change profession.
What to remember when I feel bad
I'm more than just a professional.