The 7-day holiday is over. Are you ready to work?
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The long vacation is finally over. We are about to return to the intense work situation all night, and many people become restless and even contradictory. Behind these “small problems”, there is actually a hidden “big hidden danger”.
In 1974, American clinical psychologist Herbert J. Feidenberg proposed the concept of “Occupational Burnout” based on his work experience. This phenomenon has been developed and finally reached this year. At the end of the month, the World Health Organization officially recognized it as a health problem that deserves attention and is widespread in the workplace. When I go to work, I can’t afford the spirit. I feel that my mood is low, and even I am anxious, which may be the adverse effect of “burnout”.
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I have identified six core dimensions on which there can be a significant mismatch between the person and the workplace, all of which predict higher levels of burnout.——Christina Maslach, Professor Emerita of Psychology at The University of California, Berkeley
I have confirmed that occupational fatigue怠 will be reflected in six core metrics that reflect the individual’s mismatch with the workplace. – Christina Maslaqi, Professor of Social Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Although reluctantly, we have to accept the fact that the seven-day holiday is coming to an end.
The carnival has been more than a week, and the Jiugongge Circle of Friends Photo Contest is nearing the end, but most people at the moment still have no intention of working, and they only want to continue their birthday for the motherland. The unavoidable traffic jam and the unfinished flag set before the holiday will all arrive as scheduled after the holiday… In the face of anxiety, we are often afraid of the upcoming work, and even the idea of not wanting to go to work. .
The resistance to work after a long vacation is an intriguing phenomenon, which is a comprehensive manifestation of the body in response to work stress.
It is worth noting that Occupational Burnout is eroding our physical and mental health step by step.
On May 28 this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially included “burnout” in the newly released International Classification of Diseases-11. ICD-11) and believe that “burnout” has become “one of the most widely discussed mental health issues in modern society.”
On May 28, 2019, the World Health Organization officially defined “burnout” as a “professional phenomenon” and included in the International Classification of Diseases | WHO official website
Being faced with work pressure, we will always respond involuntarily and negatively. Behind this, perhaps all of them are “burnout”.
The trouble of going to work after 01 section
Be the first to bear the brunt, This is the return traffic problem for long vacation trips (click to view BAI Section 016: Holiday trip, how do I always block on the road?), due to the prevailing urban planning and roads in China Design flaws, as well as the “ghost traffic jam” problem that has not been effectively solved so far in the world, it is quite irritating for Chinese vacationers to experience long traffic jams before the end of the holidays.
On August 14, 2010, there was a 20-day traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. The British “Guardian” called it “the biggest congestion scene in human history” | Beijing News
When we switch from an unregulated holiday model to a highly disciplined work model, our fragile body mechanisms will produce a variety of inconsistencies, followed by fatigue, Drowsiness and chest tightness, and even the accompanying loss, anxiety and depression, together constitute the well-known “post-holiday syndrome”.
But the “post-holiday syndrome” is only a temporary symptom caused by the improper transition between holidays and workdays. The “burnout” caused by work stress really makes us feel resistant to work after the holidays. The culprit.
02 Grinding people’s burnout
Grinding occupational burnout
In 1974, American clinical psychologist Herbert J. Freudenberger (1926-1999) first used “employee burnout” in the Journal of Social Issues. (Staff Burn-Out) describes the phenomenon that you observe and appreciate in a public welfare drug treatment clinic.
Feedenberg found that among the clinics he worked for, volunteers including themselves generally showed extreme fatigue, headache, insomnia, and negative irritability. He used this phenomenon like energy burnout. Named “burnout”.
In 1960, the British novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991) published the novel “A Burn-Out Case”, which tells a novel. The story that took place in the Congolese leprosy sanatorium, which is considered to be one of the origins of the word “depletion/burnout” | raptisrarebooks.com
After that, the discussion about “burnout” gradually became popular in Western countries. In 1981, American social psychologist Christina Maslach first published “Mars occupational burnout.” The “Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)” is used to quantify the “professional burnout” value experienced by professionals in the workplace, and to assess the mental fatigue of workers.
Today, the Mars Burnout Scale as a product can still be spent on some organizations’ websites | mindgarden.com
In the first-generation occupational burnout scale, Maslaqi used a total of 22 measures, from Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment ( Three dimensions, such as Personal Accomplishment, PA), assess the degree of burnout. In Maslaqi’s view, if workers show corresponding symptoms in the above three dimensions, then there is a certain degree of “burnout”.
At the end of May 2019, in the latest update of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, WHO also summarized the characteristics of “burnout” as the following three symptoms at work: 1. Feeling exhausted or Exhaustion; 2. Increased psychological distance from work, negative and cynical emotions towards work; and 3. reduced professional performance.
Although in the official definition of WHO, “burnout” is still only an “occupational phenomenon” worthy of attention, not a “professional disease” that was previously misidentified. But there is no doubt that this phenomenon is enough to attract our attention.
As early as 2015, in the Workplace Burnout Survey issued by Deloitte in the United States, up to 77% of respondents indicated that they have experienced different levels of “burnout” in their current work.
In 2018, a study by Gallup Consulting in the United States also pointed out that 23% of respondents often suffer from “burnout” at work, the study also pointed out that “Possiction” has induced a variety of diseases to varying degrees, resulting in nearly $200 billion in medical costs in the United States.
It can be seen that being short-worked by work may not be just an insignificant joke.
Mysterious Causes of Burnout
As a phenomenon limited to the workplace, there is an inextricable link between “burnout” and work stress. In 1997, Maslaqi and Canadian organization psychologist Michael P. Leiter jointly proposed the “job-matching theory of job burnout”, and believed that the “burnout” sense was generated with six The “mismatch” aspect is closely related.
Maslaqi, a research project dedicated to “burnout” | Youtube screenshots
When the workload is overloaded, there is no control over the progress of the work task, no ideal compensation, no positive connection with colleagues, no fair evaluation of work performance and conflicts with company values, the staff will show A clear sense of “burnout”.
Whenever we feel “burnout”, try to communicate with others.It is perhaps a good way to slow down and avoid “burnout” by revising your own perceptions and expectations in six areas.
03 Not going to work completely? More harmful to the body and mind
“Occupational burnout” has a lot of harm, and many people have been plagued by unconsciousness. This can not help but let some people scratch their heads and utter a whimsy: Can we Simply don’t go to work, so basically get rid of “burnout”?
Frankly speaking, not going to work completely is actually more harmful to the body and mind.
Working makes people realize themselves
After the industrial revolution, in order to adapt to the large-scale industrial production that is different from the natural economy, the modern working principle of “punctuality” and “hard work” was established. For the first time, human society has the concept of “working”.
Unlike the “seeing the world” in the agricultural era, the modern industrial system of the industrial age offers another possibility of obtaining production and living materials through labor. The emerging “factory” provides a new social place where people’s socialization is no longer solely based on blood and geography. Mass production also quantifies work performance, which makes “a sense of accomplishment “Become something that can be intuitively reflected.
There is no doubt that a working person can get almost every level of Maslow needs | whatsappforwards.com
Maybe many people’s surprises, in the work scene, we can almost meet each level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, even including wifi needs
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But there is always no shortage of challengers in this world. Many people have chosen to completely jump out of the shackles of modern business society, completely bid farewell to “work” and “burnout”, and give their own countermeasures – become 啃 Old people, choose home 蹲.
This group of strange people who are far away from “burnout” and who are at home are nicknamed “scorpion” by netizens, and in our neighboring Japan, they are called “inducing cages” (hikikomori) ), that is, “the squatter”.
According to Japanese media reports, Japan’s old-fashioned ancestors have moved toward the trend of “aging” and “long-termization” | NHK “ニュースウォッチ9” (Newswatch) March 29, 2019 9) Screenshots
According to statistics from the Japanese Cabinet Office at the end of March this year, Japan’s 40- to 46-year-old “蛰居族” is expected to have more than 610,000 people. Isolated twisted life, and thus derived from huge social problems.
After the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy in the 1990s, these young people who were unable to work stably chose to live in their homes and never “go to work”, but they did not communicate with the society because they did not “work burnout” for a long time. To varying degrees, there are many mental illnesses such as autism and panic disorder.
In 2019, the 51-year-old Yizu Iwasaki Ryuichi chose to slash a knife to a primary school student due to long-term mental distortion, resulting in a tragedy of two people killed and 18 injured. A few days later, a 76-year-old former official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan occurred. The murder of the old 44-year-old son Xiong Zeying Ichiro. The old Yi people who have been at home have once again entered the public vision and attracted the attention of public opinion.
In the eyes of some netizens, Xiong Zeying’s son, who is stabbed to death, is called “the ultimate ruling of Showa’s man on the house” | NHK video screenshot
In China, most of the old “scorpions” that are invisible on weekdays are mostly left out of the house. Only in the mysterious cyberspace can they occasionally see their “stunning” glimpse.
Of course, most of these “scorpions” who lie at home have their own philosophy, away from the materialistic traps of the commercial society, and one of them is the seclusion of life.
In the moment, more and more young people are suffering from “burnout” because of the frustration in the workplace. Some of them have begun to consider the commercial society far from materialistic desires, and temporarily vacant themselves at home. But what is intriguing is that after venting themselves, many people are lost and unable to integrate into society again.
For many “scorpions”, the post bar is one of the few windows that can confide in the heart, but if you browse the post, we tend to be embarrassed about the contents of the article | Baidu Post Bar Screenshot < /p>
It seems that compared with occupational burnout, the complete burnout of the soul is really worthy of our attention. After all, the negative impact of “burnout” on health can be stabilized as long as it is properly taken care of. The scope of control, but with the idea of not going to work completely, choosing exile of self is the great harm to the body and mind.
Although “working” has an unexpected small dilemma, the achievements and satisfaction of the work are unmatched by all other activities. After all, it’s painful and happy, it’s the true meaning of “going to work”
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