What you're a workaholic, or Who will come Karos

In April 2000, the Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi suffered a stroke in the workplace. KAROSA - a word, perhaps, flashed through the mind of every inhabitant of the country. Karosa - death from overwork, and this phenomenon is familiar to Japanese. Obuchi in 20 months of operation took only 3 days off and worked for 12-16 hours a day. If your schedule is like this, then you're in trouble. Probably you hard workerAnd this is serious.

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts, examining more than 100 thousand personal files of employees, established: people are constantly refining, 61% more likely to get sick or get all sorts of injuries. Work for 12 hours or more a day increases the risk of disease by a third, and the 60-hour working week - 23%.

Workaholism deforms the personality: emotional emptiness grows. It disrupted the capacity for empathy, sympathy. For a dependent workaholic characterized by an inability to close relationships, inability to play and have fun, relax and just live a quiet life. In other words, he can not be happy. His ability to joy, creativity, self-expression to easy spontaneous blocked private

stress state.

Home ideas workaholic constantly focused on work. Immediately switch on vacation he can not, he needs a kind of decompression as divers. Therefore, Friday evening and Saturday afternoon he was not at work, but still not quite home. Family relations, as a whole family is addicted workaholic perceived as interference, conversations with loved ones seem to be bored. He eschews discussion of important family issues, does not participate in the upbringing of children, prevents them from emotional warmth.

In everyday life, a workaholic grim, uncompromising, vulnerability and avoid panicky state of "doing nothing". Workaholics 40% more likely to get divorced, workaholic have fixed problems with sex. Working around the clock, even at home, they do not turn off cell phones. "Four in bed: you, your partner and two smartphone '- a joke just about them.

If you recognize yourself, let's add that workaholism is not hard work.

Workaholism - destroying disease. This is not the result of the working of excitement, and wake-up call that something is wrong.

Workaholism disease first described psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi (Sándor Ferenczi) in 1919. It is from this illness he treated his patients who became ill at the end of the working week, and then recovered sharply on Monday morning. It was he who described workaholism as a disease, which today are diagnosed in 5% of all workers in the world.

Psychologists distinguish four stages of development of workaholism:

1. First, the initial, usually goes unnoticed and begins with the fact that a person is detained at work, think about it at your leisure, personal life takes a back seat.

2. The second stage - critical when the work becomes a passion. Personal life is completely subordinated to the work, and the patient finds it a lot of excuses. There is chronic fatigue, disturbed sleep.

3. The next stage - chronic. Workaholic voluntarily takes on more and more responsibilities, it becomes perfectionist - man, constantly striving for perfection, but in time everything he can not.

4. During the fourth and final stage the person becomes sick, both physically and psychologically. Reduced working capacity, a man almost broken.

Psychologist Olga Vesnina proposed the following classification of workaholics:

• Workaholic for others I work very hard and are very pleased. He believes that the work for the family (which usually does not share this opinion) does not recognize their illness. Help such a workaholic is impossible - all the same what to treat a drug addict who does not want to be treated.
• Workaholic for yourself a lot of work, but feels about it conflicting emotions (know, that works too much and that's bad). Realizes that loved ones may suffer from his work. He is not hopeless.
• successful workaholic for his work making great professional and career success. Family, he almost did not see, however, thanks to a successful career can provide your family a comfortable life.
• Workaholic loser engaged in useless activities, it simulates the operation of filling the void in his life. He earns little, feeling the futility of their existence, thus burying the work more and more.
• hidden workaholic in public complains, he does not like to work, and in fact all of their strength and love gives work. He realizes that his workaholism - illness, and therefore hide their illness, constantly talking about how he was tired of working. In this case, without a job, and he can not live a day.

However, not every person who works hard, is considered to be a workaholic. For example, there is the concept of "false workaholism"In which a person is covered by a work and wants to be seen as a workaholic. In this case it accumulates until the last, and then operates in an emergency mode. These people are not dependent on the work, they often complain that they do not have time, but they just seem workaholics convenient.

If a person has a 12-hour working day - it does not mean that he is a workaholic. Workaholism - is a psychological dependence, and there are a number of grounds on which it can be identified.

• After a day of work is almost impossible to switch to another activity. Rest loses its meaning, does not give joy and détente.
• Only by working or thinking about work people feel energetic, confident and self-sufficient.
• There is a persistent belief that real satisfaction can only be experienced on the job, all the rest - a surrogate.
• If suddenly the man for some time, is not loaded with work, it starts to feel irritation, nothing motivated dissatisfaction with oneself and others.
• Oh man say (and not just close) that he is in communion silent and grim, uncompromising, aggressive. But all that disappears, it is worth it to be on the job - before you a totally different person.
• At the end of the close of any business person is experiencing anxiety, fear, confusion.
• To escape from this, he immediately begins to plan the following work tasks.
• Everything that happens outside of work, for a man - idleness, laziness, self-indulgence.
• Magazines, television programs, entertainment shows cause a person only irritation.
• Increasingly, lack of sexual desire, but the man explains this by saying that "today, tired, but tomorrow ...".
• In the lexicon of common words and phrases, "all," "always," "I", "I", and talking about the work, the person uses the pronoun "we" rather than "I".
• A person becomes a habit to set apparently insoluble problems and unattainable goals.
• All the problems and failures in the work of man begins to perceive as personal.
• Due to the congestion on the gradually deteriorating family relationships.

In this workaholic boss likes. Indeed, destroying themselves, they reach heights and become an asset of the company. Workaholics are good in certain situations: start or completion of projects, the seasonal increase in the volume of work, the need to prepare for a test.

Often leaders promote a culture of "high wear" in the company. They should be upset: This position leads in economic losses, not the business prosperity. Chronically tired employee is incapable of innovation, the full impact of work and empathy. Workaholics, exhausted by the pursuit of his work, often make costly mistakes for the organization and conflict with colleagues. And suffer with the unenviable regularity, and this entails the payment of sick leave. In addition, workaholics his exploits allow to exist in the organization of "lumpen cadres" not to raise the productivity of labor, but regularly salaried. And workaholics, and the "lumpen" hard to motivate, as a normal labor motivation here is no longer working, which means that employees are poorly managed.