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Let’s get our heads around this.
Stress is a short term response to a challenge. Resilience is a response to stress.
Burnout is a syndrome of chronic multifactorial occupational stress. It’s not a disease.
Mental illness is a psychiatric diagnosis.
Stress is a short term response to a challenge. Resilience is a response to stress.
Burnout is a syndrome of chronic multifactorial occupational stress. It’s not a disease.
Mental illness is a psychiatric diagnosis.
The responses to each are different.
They are related but they’re not the same. Antidepressants is not the treatment for burnout. Yoga is not the treatment for mental illness.
They are related but they’re not the same. Antidepressants is not the treatment for burnout. Yoga is not the treatment for mental illness.
Resilience is a dirty word just as burnout is. Resilience is a healthy response towards everyday stresses and burnout is a chronic workplace problem which require workplace intervention. Nothing wrong with these concepts. It’s how it’s been pushed, delivered and enforced.
@WHO’s ICD11 calls burnout a chronic occupational stress syndrome. Not a disease. It’s a factor leading towards a disease.
Building personal resilience (ie. like a muscle that response to stresses) will help in dealing with everyday minor stresses.
Treating burnout require workplace interventions (systems, EMR, leadership, culture).
Mental illness treatment require a mental health professional.
Treating burnout require workplace interventions (systems, EMR, leadership, culture).
Mental illness treatment require a mental health professional.
