Exhaustion, a professional exhaustion syndrome, would affect several hundred thousand French every year. Among the causes of exhaustion, the pressure was felt at work and in particular that hierarchical superiors exerted. 60% of employees believe that their manager is a source of stress, against only 10% in Norway, a country known for being one of the happiest in the world.
“Many people experience extreme violence at work, which end in collapse,” said Paul-Antoine Martin.
Victim of exhaustion in 2020 When he was a manager, he recounts his descent to hell and his slow reconstruction in a book, The perverted time.
He remembers the brutality of this day 2020: “The day before, I was in an almost correct state, even if I had been slipping for several weeks in depression and then, in the morning, I wake up after a chaotic night (…) and I am locked in my body, as if it were paralyzed.”
“Gradual slide”
The cause of this inclination? “The extreme violence” of your employer and your business. “There was a permanent atmosphere of manipulation and lie and I was in the directory and I saw things with which I was in a deep conflict,” recalls Paul-Antaine Martin, who also describes a “violent harassment”, which led to “a very progressive sliding in depression” and the emergence of a “very powerful stress.”
His psychiatrist quickly made a diagnosis: Paul-Antaine Martin made an exhaustion. It is thanks to his relatives and in particular his wife, that he will put the words about what happens to him. “Without such entourage, there is a good possibility of not surviving,” he said. Even today, the old framework suffers from the psychological, but also physical consequences, of its exhaustion.
“Hyperstress”
“Today, exhaustion is defined by a very strong exhaustion of the body and mind, the inability to act, even to raise myself, walk, but also to think and concentrate”, but also “a” rare “of emotions, we no longer feel much” and “of a depressed syndrome,” explains Patrick Lélegeron, psychiatrist, author of the Academy of the Academy of the Academy of Medicine in the burn.
Burn-Out, “is the maximum stress stage,” summarizes the specialist.
And to detail: “punctual stress, which can be useful for us, can be transformed into chronic stress and becomes something called hyperstermeation (…) which is the before exhaustion.”
What are the signs of exhaustion?
Dr. Patrick Légeron remembers that there are different alerts to which care to avoid reaching exhaustion: “pain”, bad sleep, fatigue, “we are more easily irritable”, lack of concentration, increase in its consumption of tobacco or alcohol … In short, everything that shows “that the machine is overheating.”
“All these signs should attract attention,” recalls the psychiatrist, since “when you are in hyperstress, there is still a way to avoid exhaustion.”
If several factors can also accelerate the diving of a worker, including extreme perfectionism or overinversion, Patrick Légeron recalls that “the only important thing in his life” and “have other activities and other interests that work is something that protects” should not work.
Source: BFM TV
