Emotional burnout: what you need to know

Is it easy to get psychological exhaustion, living in the city, running marathons, falling or idling? Why is this happening? What's behind it and how to cope with emotional burnout?

To find answers to our numerous questions, we talked with renowned psychologist Anna Sultanova. So, now tell, what really lies behind this strange term, why you can easily fall into depression even after very positive events.





1. Emotional burnout is fraught with depression, sense of emptiness and apathy. As if a person burns from within, it ceases to feel emotions, the energy that fills them. As a consequence, can not share it with others.

2. Burnout totally affects everything. When a person is emotionally burnt out, he doesn't want to live, or rather he had nothing to live without emotions he's not ready to make contact, he can give nothing. Emotions are first and foremost a way of expression and contact.

3. Burnout has two phases. The first is the growing when a person still has the energy and he still doesn't understand what's wrong with him. It spends more energy than it receives in return, and can not recover. This stage is called the stage of devastation. It may last for some time, much depends on the physical margin of the body. The second phase of depression, it occurs in different ways. Some even experience a panic attack.

4. In the metropolis equally all subject to fading due to bad environment and crazy rhythm of life. Late to bed, early to rise, are constantly connected to work with full dedication and should always be open. Plus in the metropolis broken our connection with nature.

5. "Burn" doing nothing is simply impossible. You don't share power when lazy.

6. Emotional burnout is more common in people who work with people. For example, representatives of the service sector, doctors, psychologists, journalists, teachers, social workers. In General, all who give a lot and receive little in return. Office workers can also suffer from burnout, their activity also has shortcomings.

7. People engaged in monotonous activity, as well as those who are not open to contacts that are less susceptible to fading. Also it is easier to cope with him those who are able to quickly regain their strength.

8. Love raises man to another plane. If the feelings are mutual and sincere, they nourish you. But if love is defective, if there is no return, to burn out very simply.

9. The Chinese have a rule that people must keep in balance all the five types of energy. So if he has an excess of joy, you may experience problems with the heart. That is, roughly speaking, the amount of joy that comes to him, not sufficient for its assimilation. There were cases when people under great joy, received a heart attack.

10. If you love sports, be careful. After a major competition, race, swim is a great chance to obtain distress syndrome is, the effects of stress. To reduce the chance of burnout, after the competition, sit on the ground or lie down on the grass. Roughly speaking, you need to ground to recover their strength.

11. Distress syndrome experience and women. After such a joyous event like childbirth, need to rest, and young mothers sometimes have no time to recover. This can happen nervous breakdown. That is why it is so important after birth to help a young mother to nurse the baby.

12. If you see that your relatives or friends little energy, they are lethargic, tired, or, conversely, overexcited, worried something – support them. In addition to encouraging words, tell something's bothering behavior, if this state lasts longer than a few days. Can offer together to seek help.

13. To avoid burnout, it is important to learn to understand your boundaries and needs. You need to understand how you feel in a particular situation. The body is always sending signals "I'm tired", "I hate", and it is necessary to learn to hear.

14. In addition to awareness of your needs is important to learn to control the amount of energy you share with people.

15. Remember, if a person is all right in life, it is enough resting and often outdoors, he is less likely threatened by burnout. published

 

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