Phenomenon “burn-on”
How to break the cycle of constant stress and exhaustion
People with burn-on continues to work in everyday life-despite constant stress, exhaustion and physical complaints. What is behind it and what helps those affected.
This text comes from the star archive and first appeared in November 2023.
With the term “burn-on”, the doctor Bert Te Wildt and the psychologist Timo Schiele found a memorable name for a phenomenon some time ago that many know: you feel completely exhausted-and yet continue to work. Affected people are always short, so to speak, before The burnout, but the total breakdown is missing. Bert te Wildt, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and psychologist Timo Schiele work in the Psychosomatic Clinic Kloster Dießen. There they actually treat people with burnout complaints. But in recent years, more and more patients have been sitting in front of him who at first glance had not been seen how bad they were, says Timo Schiele.
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Just like Anna Vogel (name changed by the editor), marketing manager and mother of triple. The 42-year-old went to the clinic because she wanted to get her sleep problems and her various chronic pain under control. For years she had tried this with medication and a few hours with therapists. But without success. In the admission interview, she emphasized how important it was to be fit for her job again in four weeks at the latest. And that she is planning to take full time again when she has her health under control.
Source: Stern
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