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The traditional definition of burnout
Burnout can be defined as a combination of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency. People who feel burned out may experience a lack of emotional energy to attend to their work, withdraw from colleagues and customers, and may feel incompetent as a result.
But not everyone experiences burnout in the same way. A better framework can help to understand the many subtypes of burnout.
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Burnout: Coping mechanisms
Researchers listed fifteen different coping strategies commonly used by people experiencing burnout. Not all coping mechanisms are constructive.
- Social support
- Humour
- Better planning of workload
- Restraint
- Focus on solving the problem
- Perso...
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The types of burnout
- The frenetic worker. Despite feeling overloaded and overwhelmed with work, you work increasingly harder, ignoring your own needs to the point of exhaustion.
- The under-challenged worker. You have to cope with monotonous conditions that fail to provi...
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