It’s a feeling of extreme work stress that’s long been embedded in the cultural lexicon, and now it might be codified in your medical records as well.Burnout is now a legitimate medical diagnosis, according to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the World Health Organization’s handbook that guides medical providers in diagnosing diseases.Burnout now appears in the ICD-11’s section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they meet the following symptoms:1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion2. increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job3. reduced professional efficacyBefore making the call, the document says doctors should first rule out adjustment disorder as well as anxiety and mood disorders. And the diagnosis is limited to work environments, and shouldn’t be applied to other life situations.
Researchers have been studying burnout for decades
Burnout has long been a blurry cultural concept that has defied attempts to create a specific consensus definition scientists can all agree on.Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger is credited with inaugurating the formal study of the state of burnout with a scientific article published in 1974, according to a 2017 review of literature published in the journal SAGE Open.The authors of that review, Linda and Torsten Heinemann, say that over the next four decades, hundreds of studies appeared on the subject. During that time, they noted burnout was not considered an actual mental disorder even though it is “one of the most widely discussed mental health problems in today’s society.”One reason for that, the Heinemanns argue, is that much of the research on burnout focused on “causes and associated factors,” rather than on attempts to develop specific diagnostic criteria. That led to “vagueness and ambiguity” around the concept of burnout.
Source CNN
In some companies , especially these not well protected by by the local institution , the Burnout is daily experience. For example many people are “officially” overloaded by its management. The management perfectly know that peoples are overloaded , but don’t care. Its benefits also depending by its employee , and they are selfish enough and pursuing its teams as much as possible. This should be illegal , and probably it is , but the affected peoples do not complain. Peoples are not complaining , because they are brainwashed already. Peoples are too depended by its job. Companies make them depended by low salary wages. Brainwashing also have to be banned.
Its time WHO, and the local governments and institution to wake up, and to protect peoples from the greed corporation, and its internal slavery rules !
Wake Up peoples , the health is much important than to work for any greed monster.
Your JobsEU.org team
