How to Prevent Emotional Exhaustion: 3 Rules of Life

Did you finally find the cause of your life, did you invest impressive resources in training, and after 3 months of hard work did you get emotionally exhausted?

You probably have the following questions:

I'm lazy or I don't know how to plan:

• Have we invested time, money, and power in vain for this purpose?

• Or was it a bad idea from the start?

• What's wrong with me?

It is a condition known to those who have had to change their profession or look for a new kind of activity. Many people now talk about "self-realization," but they don't always warn you that even the business of your life can drain you so much that you come to hate what you do.

For this reason, many specialists give up and leave their jobs because they do not have "correct operating instructions". Let's try to make it up.

Let's start by understanding what emotional exhaustion is.

People who are constantly dealing with people with serious problems are prone to professional emotional exhaustion. The so-called "auxiliary professions" are assigned to this category: doctors, teachers, social workers, volunteers, educators, curators, and others.

Even if the person works as a programmer, but has a seriously ill bedridden patient at home, which he takes care of, then the programmer can also be emotionally exhausted (but in this case, not professionally).

Whether emotional exhaustion is related to his profession or not, the following symptoms will occur:

• loss of interest in life,

• loss of the ability to enjoy his work as a whole, in particular his work,

• the desire to take refuge away from people and the rest of the world,

• apathy and even depression,

• constant fatigue (not only in the evening but also in the morning, immediately after waking up).

It is especially difficult to deal directly with other people's problems, pain, and negative emotions. When you always have to share your emotional and soul powers, to help them, to heal them, to get them out of need, to pity them. When the forces flow in one direction and you do not recover, then the process of exhaustion begins.

Many people in the social sphere embrace this profession because they want to help others. It is wonderful, but often, especially at the beginning of the journey, novices dedicate themselves to work and are completely absorbed in the profession, forgetting about themselves, friends and family.

How can you go out to dinner with friends, when there are so many people in hospitals who need help when there are so many children in orphanages, when so many are starving, not all of them have a roof over their heads?

But this view is wrong, because if you alone will be the source of energy, which you will not take care to supplement from other resources, then sooner or later it will dry up.

Emotional exhaustion occurs when a person accumulates negative emotions for a long time.

How to prevent emotional exhaustion

Reserve at least (!) One full day a week for rest.

And he devotes this time specifically to rest. Not to prepare for a new week of work, not to make up the lesson plan or training, put to rest. For you, for your family, for your friends, in the bosom of nature, for what charges you the most with positive emotions. This day can NOT bring you any money - it's a nailed rule that you shouldn't break.

Find a hobby.

Do what you love. Start knitting, embroidering, crafting birdhouses, singing, dancing, drawing, going for a walk, cooking, playing board games with friends and family. Any occupation, just to please.

Analyze your circle of communication.

Write a list of people you've communicated with within the last 2 weeks. Analyze what feelings you have left after communicating with each one. If you have a stressful feeling, you feel tired, probably communicating with this person is more exhausting than filling your batteries.

If so, then think about how good it is to change the communication format so that it pleases you. If it is impossible, then ask yourself if it is so necessary to communicate with this person. Try to set priorities correctly. On one side of the scale do you have your emotional health and joy of life, and on another what is it?

In order not to fall victim to this syndrome, you need to build the right relationships with yourself and those around you. Whatever happens, keep in mind that exhaustion is not a disease, just a mental reaction to emotional overload.