The new medical condition making people retire
Did you know ‘burnout’ from work is now a legitimate health condition? That’s according to an announcement from the World Health Organisation this week saying:
“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed…”
Symptoms include lack of energy, exhaustion, and feeling negative or cynical about work.
Here’s the thing though:
For these symptoms to be diagnosed ‘burnout',’ they must be experienced in a strict work context. They can’t be from the never ending football season, news cycle, realty TV programming, or relatives who tell the same stories over and over again.
What’s more, now that I know that work-related burnout is an official health problem, I’m fairly sure folk have presented to my Retirement Coaching Asylum with a possible case of burnout.
Predicaments have included:
needing to work only for the money
losing faith in the corporate overlords
finding the grind… well… a grind
refusing to climb the next mountain
worrying about not working
losing control of the scope or amount of work
and so on.
And if you feel you have a possible case of burnout too, you may like to check in at my Retirement Coaching Asylum. Not for medical advice or help of course. You won’t find that here. I’m not qualified. But I can help with your transition to retirement.
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