Last week we explained the three different types of burnout. This time we'll teach you 15 constructive strategies to prevent, cope with, or recover from them.
It is important to note that, in the long term, the key factor in developing burnout syndrome seems to be the degree of passivity that the person has towards what they are feeling.
In an article by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, researchers listed fifteen different coping strategies used by people experiencing burnout:
- Social support
- Religion/Spirituality
- Humor
- Substance use
- Planning
- Behavioral disengagement
- Emotional release
- Acceptance
- Denial
- Restriction
- Focus on resolving situations
- Personal growth
- Positive reinterpretation
- Distracting activities
- Cognitive avoidance
Seeking social support, defusing the situation with humor, planning your workload better, accepting your emotional and psychological struggles, focusing on solving the problem, and reinterpreting challenges positively are all constructive coping mechanisms.
