“I feel that the cases of burnout and extreme exhaustion are not so much so that we have no tools to cope Impose a way of doing things, but a call that people may wonder: what other ways are there to create? ”He said Lucila CáceresBachelor of Biological Sciences of the UBA and a specialist in Neuroscience.
Cataloged by the World Health Organization (WHO) As a labor risk in 2019, Burnout syndrome was included in the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (CIE-11)whose entry into force has been set for January 1, 2022. It is an increasingly known and more diagnosed disorder that combines personal risk factors with risk factors related to the organization. In fact, for experts, it is one of the main mental health problems and the prelude to many psychic pathologies.
“A feeling of failure and an exhausting experience that results from an overload due to energy demands, personal resources or spiritual strength of the worker,” described the psychoanalyst Herbert Freudenberger who used the term “Burnout” For the first time in 1974. The professional observed in a clinic for drug addicts in New York how most volunteers had a loss of progressive energy until he reached exhaustion. He also detected symptoms of anxiety, depression and demotivation at work, in addition to aggressiveness towards patients after a year of being working.
Considered chronic work stress, it usually appears in people whose profession demands and dedication to others, such as teaching, health or social services. It especially affects health professionals, since they are exposed to human suffering and death. In addition, they have a high level of labor exposure, with long working days and a high level of demand and overload of tasks. This long -term exposure generates a feeling of lack of personal fulfillment and depersonalization that can cause little motivation for work, generating errors and deterioration of service quality.
For specialist Cáceres, a way to avoid this disorder is offered by the so -called “Seasonal creativity”, Where natural stimuli (light, temperature) impact the nervous system, affecting attention, rest and different types of creativity that emerge in each station. The concept is based on the idea that, as cyclical beings, the ability to detect and receive stimuli, and therefore work and creative capacity, changes with the environment. The cognitive cost varies according to the summer station. Demand sustained attention in cold months, for example, asks the brain more than you can give.
“Although we think that we can create the whole year in the same way, the reality is that environmental factors, such as temperature changes, hours of light and stimuli of nature, also model the way in which we shape ideas and lead them to action. Thus, summer is when we feel more comfortable to go to social encounters where we can discuss and enhance our ideas with the look of others, it becomes a season relevant.
Lucila Cáceres concluded: “The arrival of winter comes to put ourselves in check, because most of us have not taught us about rest and pause; but innovation arises exactly in those moments where we can offer a breath of accelere to our ideas. How much are we willing to stop better? And spring feels as if the cycle began again; Communicated, shared and expanded, unless you are running to do as much as possible before Christmas comes. ”
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