Constant fatigue often leads to burnout. The syndrome of burnout has both psychological and physiological components which come about from continued stress at work. People who suffer from chronic fatigue have many stress related conditions. For many, job stress leads to job burnout and is the last of a long line of insults leading to constant fatigue.
Many workers experiencing burnout suffer from mental withdrawal due to:
* job strain
* work strain
* strain of your job
Symptoms of burnout include the following:
* loss of energy
* lack of energy
* too little energy
* declining attitude
Studies of burnout in the workplace indicate that about 25-35% of workers suffer from it. Research has looked at the function of the stress response system to understand its role but these results have been inconsistent. Tests of this nature are not good at detecting shades of gray and, as a result, cannot discriminate differing degrees of system function.
The loss of function in the system must reach a specific level of failure before medical testing will turn-up anything. Our bodies operate over a wide continuum and most tests can’t evaluate the body’s responses over this wide range.
The feelings and sensations that the individual experiences are real, but tests most often cannot detect why. The failure of the tests to find anything, leads to a poor outcome in patient care.
A single cause of a disease is an unusual event, yet most believe that one cause is the primary feature of disease. Multiple causes of disease are the most common factors and that’s what’s so confounding to medicine in chronic fatigue.
Further studies are needed to define the contribution of other issues to burnout such as post-viral syndrome, cellular toxicity, depression, muscle weakness, inadequate diet, and the lack of exercise.
Chronic fatigue and it’s more severe conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivity have defied medical diagnosis. The outcome is that there are no known effective therapies that modern medicine has to offer.
As a result, more and more people are looking into alternative therapies. Millions of people are actually now spending more money out-of-pocket on alternatives than on conventional medical care.
People are finding solutions to their health problems from the use of alternative therapies. They rarely mention this fact to their physicians for fear of a “dressing down” since doctors are generally against any treatments that they don’t control. Most doctors believe that nothing in the alternative treatments of health problems are of any value.
Medicine is against the use of nutritional supplements and admonishes those who support their use. It formed opinions based on a belief system that supplements were of no value, not based on facts. In respect to diet, medicine still promotes low-fat eating despite the fact that it contributes to obesity, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases. Medicine doesn’t explore or do research on any of these topics and often makes unsubstantiated claims while accusing the other side of exactly the same action.