This concept is relatively recent and results from the experience of prolonged/chronic professional stress. Burnout includes three dimensions:
- Emotional exhaustion;
- Depersonalization (less identification with work);
- Professional fulfillment (decreased job satisfaction).
So, if you have a frequent feeling of being exhausted, hate your job and feel, for example, unable to perform it, you may be showing signs of burnout. The stress that leads to burnout can come predominantly from your work, but the stress resulting from your day-to-day life can contribute to this situation. Burnout affects not only professionals who deal directly with providing support to others, but it is a problem in modern society that can affect any professional, regardless of their area of work. Symptoms of physical/psychological exhaustion affect professional/personal life at different levels, and this has an impact on a socioeconomic level (e.g., low productivity, etc.), physical (e.g., low immunity, etc.), and mental health (e.g., depression, etc.).
Symptoms can be categorized as:
❤️ Affective (e.g., tiredness or emotional exhaustion, crying easily, anxiety, sudden mood swings, emotional exhaustion, depressed mood, etc.);
