I haven’t experienced this much lately either personally or professionally although I have a colleague who recently described having to deal with just that. Feeling overwhelmed he became cognitively and energetically dysfunctional, so much so, that he had to step back from his medical practice. It was only once he changed his diet, embraced meditation and more exercise that he was slowly able to ease back into regular daily engagement. This was in the middle of last year and now he is doing just fine.
While this might sound like a rather glib and way to easy solution according to Emily Ballesteros, I don’t think a relation of the late, great golfer Seve, an organizational psychologist, this experience has become widespread and aside from the steps taken by my associate she has come up with her own blueprint in a book entitled, ‘the Cure for Burnout.’ According to Ballesteros the reasons that so many of us are imploding are that we aren’t earning enough to sustain the lifestyles we desire and that we are exposed to external stresses that we cannot control, which ultimately exhaust our energetic resources rendering us inert. She suggests we uncover what ignites our mojo, which I take to mean finding our purpose with regard to lifting our fellow exhaustees out of their collective mire and that we disengage from that which dissipates our enthusiasm.
Then off course there’s fatigue which I do see a lot of in my practice and that could be due to a host of reasons, hormonal, nutritional and others that need to be investigated and uncovered.
