{"id":9951,"date":"2020-02-27T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurideastranslation.com\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2020-02-27T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:59:59","slug":"burnout-midlife-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/burnout-midlife-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout, midlife crisis: Does civilisation make us unhappy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our civilisation has reached a point where it makes just\nas many people ill mentally as it makes well physically. However, being aware\nof that is already part of the solution. Let\u2019s see how we can escape from the\ntrap of a burnout or midlife crisis!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandparents\u2019 generation\nhad a strange affection for gardening. An activity they didn\u2019t need <\/em>to do anymore, yet they did it. I\noften wonder whether they were already fighting this modern epidemic by wielding\na hoe to relieve stress. Because, as far as I can recall, sources of stress were\nemerging everywhere, but especially in ever-more-demanding jobs. As early as\nthe 1970s, it was declared that civilisation diseases actually exist, and they\nmostly take a toll on people\u2019s mental health. As a young adult, I took it for\ngranted that life was like that, and there was no way to escape it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who isn\u2019t tired, after\nall, or fed up with their life as it is now? If you are around 40-50, you may\nfind both things hit you all at once. Now I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019d like\nto be prepared if that\u2019s the case. So I did a little research on the red flags\nfor mental health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out burnout is somewhat easier to identify, since in 2019 WHO officially announced<\/a> it was an \u201coccupational phenomenon\u201d caused by chronic workplace stress and manifesting itself as exhaustion, cynicism about the job, and decreasing performance as a result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The midlife crisis, a\ncondition we have known about since the 1960s, unfortunately doesn\u2019t have such\nclearly defined diagnostic criteria. There is a running joke about grey-haired\nmen chasing young girls around in a red Porsche, but the reality is more\ncomplicated. Some people completely close up in denial. Others try to face\ntheir strange new thoughts only to find doubt, insecurity, apathy, and a\nconfusing picture of the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in order to begin to heal, we do have to face those thoughts — and not look for a magic pill to make it all go away. Any long-term solution will involve the trinity of self-care<\/a>: admit your problem, ask for help, and stick to your healing plan. Such a strategy, usually consisting of prioritising your best interests, and also saying no more often, getting some exercise, and being more mindful, can also be used as prevention. Besides general advice, both conditions have their specific healing tools. For burnout, it can be that extra rest so you have a clear mind to make the right decisions for your mental health. For navigating a midlife crisis, it can be a change of perspective and setting new personal and professional goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t turn the clock back, but we can be aware of these mental traps, dig deeper, and find new perspectives. We can be the crisis managers of our own lives and repair the damage civilisation causes – at least the damage we are aware of so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Anik\u00f3 J\u00f3ri-Moln\u00e1r<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our civilisation has reached a point where it makes just as many people ill mentally as it makes well physically. However, being aware of that is already part of the solution. Let\u2019s see how we can escape from the trap of a burnout or midlife crisis! My grandparents\u2019 generation had a strange affection for gardening. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurideas.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}