Burnout 2: Point of Impact (PS2)

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Indeed, employees who relied on avoidant conflict resolution strategies were more likely to experience work-related stress when compared to employees who took a problem-solving approach (Friedman et al., 2000). As defined previously, burnout is a feeling of extreme exhaustion from poorly managed stress. In contrast with therapist burnout, compassion fatigue is more specific since it is triggered through specific traumas and experiences of specific clients. Compassion fatigue is not necessarily a blanket response to ‘work.’ In summary, people with high trait anxiety scores, high perfectionism scores, and high neuroticism experience more stress at work. This is partly because of how they respond to stress, their coping mechanisms, and how they resolve conflicts. Together, these variables increase the risk of burnout.

Connect with a cause or a community group that is personally meaningful to you. Joining a religious, social, or support group can give you a place to talk to like-minded people about how to deal with daily stress—and to make new friends. If your line of work has a professional association, you can attend meetings and interact with others coping with the same workplace demands. One factor that distinguishes burnout from other illnesses is that burnout is a response to occupational stress. Therefore, clients who are currently unemployed cannot suddenly experience burnout.Support groups: Mental health support groups help you connect with others who have mental health issues and their carers. The following organisations provide support groups, so you can see if there’s one in your local area: Rethink Mental Illness, local Minds and Carers Trust (for support groups and services for carers). Please note that some support groups may be online only due to covid-19 restrictions. But burnout is not caused solely by stressful work or too many responsibilities. Other factors contribute to burnout, including your lifestyle and personality traits. In fact, what you do in your downtime and how you look at the world can play just as big of a role in causing overwhelming stress as work or home demands. Work-related causes of burnout

Bianchi R, et al. Is burnout primarily linked to work-situated factors? A relative weight analytic study. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021; doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623912.

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Problems with sleep can affect how you feel physically and mentally, and how you feel can also affect how you sleep. 83% of people felt that poor sleep could contribute to burnout. Here are some ideas on how to improve your sleep: things you should know about stress. National Institute of Mental Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/stress/. Accessed May 13, 2021. Stress, which is the underlying mechanism of burnout, can make you physically ill. Chronic or long-term stress can increase the risk of heart disease and infection (Kivimäki et al., 2006) and increase the risk of Type-2 diabetes and infertility (Toker, Shirom, Shapira, Berliner, & Melamed, 2005). Professionals who experience compassion fatigue are constantly re-exposed to the trauma and stress of a particular event but through the experiences of their clients/patients (Figley, 2002). As a result, professionals aim to be empathetic and compassionate toward their patients, while re-experiencing and re-assessing trauma through them. For example, employees who score high on measures of perfectionism and neuroticism are more likely to experience burnout (Bakker & Costa, 2014). The reason for this is that these types of employees rely on unproductive and unhelpful coping mechanisms when faced with workplace stress (Bakker & Costa, 2014).

Get plenty of sleep.Feeling tired can exacerbate burnout by causing you to think irrationally. Keep your cool in stressful situations by getting a good night’s sleep. Boost your ability to stay on task Gerstmann, Jeff (28 April 2003). "Burnout 2: Point of Impact Review (Xbox)". GameSpot . Retrieved 10 September 2014. In contrast to countertransference, compassion fatigue results from feeling empathy toward the client and their situation. The client’s situation may be a reminder of what the professional has gone through. Compassion fatigue is not because of an attachment. Remember, burnout results from occupational stress, and people who are more stressed may get involved in more conflict. Frank, Allegra; Sarkar, Samit (20 February 2018). "Burnout Paradise Remastered hits consoles in March". Polygon. Vox Media . Retrieved 20 February 2018.

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What is burnout? How to recognize the signs and recover from work-related stress. The American Institute of Stress. stress.org, published 27 April 2020.