Comments on: Are You Getting These Burnout Symptoms? http://www.cure-anxiety-attacks.com/blog/stress-relief/are-you-getting-these-burnout-symptoms.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-getting-these-burnout-symptoms Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dr. Beverly Potter http://www.cure-anxiety-attacks.com/blog/stress-relief/are-you-getting-these-burnout-symptoms.php/comment-page-1#comment-448 Dr. Beverly Potter Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:28:09 +0000 http://www.cure-anxiety-attacks.com/blog/?p=268#comment-448 Burnout is stressful but it is NOT caused by stress. Stress can harm our health and must be reduced, but reducing stress does not get rid of burnout - because stress is a symptom and not a cause. Burnout is a kind of job depression that is caused by "uncontrollability" - feeling unable to make an impact upon important factors at work or at home so that you feel powerless. Burnout damages and can destroy motivation. Think of motivation as that which gets you moving and performing. When cause in burnout it is harder and harder to get moving. Burnout can be prevented/overcome by developing "personal power" - feelings of potency, a feeling of I-Can-Do, I can take an action and have an impact. For examples of the kinds of work situations that can cause burnout, see: http://www.docpotter.com/art_no-win-job.html Burnout is stressful but it is NOT caused by stress. Stress can harm our health and must be reduced, but reducing stress does not get rid of burnout – because stress is a symptom and not a cause.

Burnout is a kind of job depression that is caused by “uncontrollability” – feeling unable to make an impact upon important factors at work or at home so that you feel powerless. Burnout damages and can destroy motivation. Think of motivation as that which gets you moving and performing. When cause in burnout it is harder and harder to get moving.

Burnout can be prevented/overcome by developing “personal power” – feelings of potency, a feeling of I-Can-Do, I can take an action and have an impact. For examples of the kinds of work situations that can cause burnout, see: http://www.docpotter.com/art_no-win-job.html

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