Workaholic

The term workaholism or workaholism (of English work, work ' and alcoholism, alcoholism ' ) refers to the clinical picture of a workaholic people. Work addiction is an addiction unbound material, in which a compulsive attitude to power and work is developed. For a workaholic family and social contacts have little more significance, he lives for his work. When working mostly quality and quantity is not, however, the importance of the work to be done in the foreground. It is implemented a perfectionist attitude.

Features

The work of addiction sufferers is characterized primarily by above-average labor input from leading more and more of a morbid addiction. Workaholism occurs mostly in people in leadership positions and self-employed activities. A large part of or the complete self-confidence is linked to job performance. By achieving a supposedly higher performance self-confidence is strengthened. As with any addiction form but the dose must be constantly increasing. Workers with fixed working hours are rarely affected.

In daily use, you used the word workaholic often for people who, though much work, but are still far from exhibiting the behavior of an addict. Correct workaholics are sick and need to be cared for as possible early on. In Japan there are already 350 treatment centers for karoshi.

Stadiums

The disease is divided into four stages:

In fact, one can die from overwork. Usually the direct cause of death as a result of the revision heart failure, heart attack or stroke. In Japan, this death is called Karoshi.

Pattern of workaholism

The selfish work is often characterized by two seemingly contradictory patterns: Once the compulsive work, on the other hand the postponement or avoidance of work.

Affected often pay off one of these two types, which are closely related: Priorities lost through the non-stop work. Pause Safe work has often perfectionism in work as the cause. Tasks should be done as perfectly as possible and therefore take up more time. Through the desire for perfection often the focus for important tasks will be lost. Even tasks with low priority occupy a large space. The Unfinished will be pushed more and must. Conversely, the pressure increases by many before him shifted tasks and prevents rest and relaxation. When working with a project nature feeling extreme highs with completion of the project and subsequent strong feeling lows are typical to start a new project.

Impact of workaholism

The flight from uncertainty, partner problems, etc. in the work has consequences: Relationships from flat, even destroyed. Physical complaints can be adjusted. Depression, anxiety, suicide or attempts, early retirement and premature death are more common than the average for workaholics. Workaholism is often associated with alcohol, pills and nicotine abuse.

Does the operation, the incipient addiction initially appreciate and encourage, as it comes in the later stages to frequent disturbances: Non-compliance of appointments, wrong decisions, increased sick leave and loss of performance which are exacerbated by alcohol and pills.

How often in addictions, is initially to cover them by colleagues observed that in the later stages but increasingly turn away, reject the supposed achievers. The team is disturbed, impaired teamwork.

The Company indirectly promotes workaholism by the paradigm that power and even more success prerequisite for social recognition. Fear of job loss can be added favoring.