Comments for Careermemos http://www.careermemos.com Career advice and tips to keep you sane in the workplace Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:24:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on Leaving a job? Why? by Dr Beverly Potter http://www.careermemos.com/leaving-a-job-why-are-you-stressed-out/#comment-102 Dr Beverly Potter Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:51 +0000 http://www.careermemos.com/?p=14#comment-102 Stress and burnout are not the same. Burnout is a kind of job depression and is caused by feeling of powerlessness; it is not caused by stress - tho it is stressful. Stress is a taxing of the body. <b>Burnout is a motivational problem.</b> A person struggling with burnout is demotivated, dispirited, depressed - down. Whereas a highly stressed person may be highly enthusiastic - tho driving their body. Stress is the "fever" of burnout. As with pneumonia. A high fever must be reduced or there is a risk of brain damage - BUT once reduced the pneumonia is still there. Similarly with burnout - the stress must be reduced but reducing stress does not deal with the job situations rendering the person helpless. The person must develop a feeling of controllability. <b>Burnout is caused by feelings of uncontrollability.</b> Powerlessness, damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't situations. It is prevented by developing feelings of control over the job - which is an on-going process. For considerable information on job burnout, the symptoms, burnout quizzes, and what to do to prevent it or turn it around - go to my site at docpotter.com Stress and burnout are not the same. Burnout is a kind of job depression and is caused by feeling of powerlessness; it is not caused by stress - tho it is stressful. Stress is a taxing of the body.

Burnout is a motivational problem. A person struggling with burnout is demotivated, dispirited, depressed - down. Whereas a highly stressed person may be highly enthusiastic - tho driving their body.

Stress is the “fever” of burnout. As with pneumonia. A high fever must be reduced or there is a risk of brain damage - BUT once reduced the pneumonia is still there. Similarly with burnout - the stress must be reduced but reducing stress does not deal with the job situations rendering the person helpless. The person must develop a feeling of controllability.

Burnout is caused by feelings of uncontrollability. Powerlessness, damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don’t situations. It is prevented by developing feelings of control over the job - which is an on-going process.

For considerable information on job burnout, the symptoms, burnout quizzes, and what to do to prevent it or turn it around - go to my site at docpotter.com

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