Are You a "Burned Out" Manager?

Responsibility for both the department’s deliverables and managing employees can be challenging for any manager. Since you need to guide your team’s well-being, make sure you are taking care of yourself.

Copyright (c) 2008 Pat Brill

Responsibility for both the department’s deliverables and managing employees can be challenging for any manager. Since you need to guide your team’s well-being, make sure you are taking care of yourself.

Managers don’t always want to acknowledge their own burnout feelings, yet all employees, no matter what role they play in the company, are potential candidates for “burnout.”

Clinical depression and its symptoms

According to the definitions of most medical, psychological and psychiatric bodies, there is a commonality in the diagnosis of depression.

Most depression tests have a very similar framework. Almost without exception, clinical depression will be diagnosed if a certain number of feelings, that are signs of depression, are present over a certain period of time.

Current theory suggests those clinical depression results from complex interactions between brain chemicals and hormones that influence a person’s energy level, feelings, sleeping and eating habits. These chemical interactions are linked to many complex causes–a person’s family history of illness, biochemical and psychological make-up, prolonged stress, and traumatic life crisis such as death of a loved one, job loss, or divorce. Following are some of the common symptoms of clinical depression:

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