One day, you will become a patient. We all will. Even before that happens, you may find yourself in the role as caregiver, caring for a loved one who is convalescing, ill, or dying. Healthcare providers know and expect what this entails, for we are faced with it every day. What about the general public,…
Category: Consequences of Job Related Burnout
How Job Burnout is Related to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Job related burnout is not something most people would associate with higher rates of alcoholism and other drug abuse. Yet studies show when burnout is severe, alcoholism and drug addiction become highly connected. No one who’s severely burned out at work ever wakes up one day and decides, “Gee, I think I’ll make things worse by…
The Very Real Connections Between Job Burnout and Suicide
It seems not a week goes by now without news of a celebrity who has committed suicide, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain being the two most recent celebrities. Sometimes suicide touches our lives more profoundly, more personally, because the victim was close to us. All across the US, suicide rates are climbing. Why? It would…
10 Costly Truths, Consequences and Realities of Job Burnout
Okay, so you feel completely burned out at your job, but you’ve decided to put your head down, grind away and tough it out until retirement. You have come to believe your current misery is better than the unknowns of change. Have you stopped to consider, though, what you will give up or lose with…
You’re Burned Out at Work — Should You Stay or Should You Go
One of the worst aspects of professional job related burnout (JRB) is the very real prospect of having to decide whether or not to stay in a toxic work environment or to seek employment elsewhere. This is never an easy decision at best. The choice is always complicated by the fact that JRB causes an…