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In Western Europe, general practitioners are instructed to prescribe relaxation and not working starting with 3 months up to 6 or 7 months. Six months of non-ac
by gillesjacobs 7y ago
In Western Europe, general practitioners are instructed to prescribe relaxation and not working starting with 3 months up to 6 or 7 months. Six months of non-activity seems to be the average recovery period prescribed after burnout.
However, every person is different. External factors such as family, lifestyle and responsibilities can aid or halt recovery. Same goes for personality and internal factors. I know of cases of burnout turned depression where the person took 2 years to start working.
There is no universal function for how long a person suffers from chronic stress and the recovery duration.
Obtaining such a function entails fully understanding and measuring all factors and dimensions involved in burnout. And that would merit a publication in Nature.
- dnautics 7y agoI find that the best thing to do is to reassociate labor and effort with reward by doing lots of low-risk primary reward work after a high risk, high effort push (doing refactorings, code cleanup, etc), and that resting after high burnout risk made recurrence more likely due to rewarding not laboring; I haven't burned out at my primary job as a result (can't say I haven't periodically burned out in other pursuits like dating lol) in several years.