Mark (not his real name) died at the end of July. Simply collapsed after leaving the roaster. In the building on the square TVP Warsaw Uprising. “The prosecutor, police, ambulance TVP. Hour resuscitation on the square, unfortunately, has not helped. Heart editor and science enthusiast could not stand. He left a wife and teenage daughter “- wrote one of the Facebook friends of Mark. For many years, completely involved in the editorial work. Editor, a computer scientist, a man of many possibilities. Friends say that was famous for his iron nerves, ability to work under time pressure and people. More than once, at the last minute saved the material, which for technical reasons do not have the right to appear on time on the air. Brand rescue failed. “Labor committed implicitly. Also yesterday came to the editorial, although a few days going to the doctor. He died at the hands of fellow “- written in the words of farewell colleagues.
After the death of Mark’s square Insurgents abuzz with rumors, accusations the address of the employer and generally broken labor law. Someone threw it by the company. Marcus was afraid. We know what the situation is on TV. Change for change, no end in sight. No one knows the day or the hour. They say that Mark too afraid. He was afraid, and his throw, but forgive. Each leave the police station were recorded. The day after Mark’s death several employees TVP goes finally to the doctor. Someone else takes overdue vacation, which again and again put off for fear that exchange it for a newer model. Someone finally states that it has had enough. That longer after 15-18 hours a day to work will not.
Too bad every hour
“How it hurts, it means that man lives” – heard constantly in the corridors editorial, corporations, offices, shops and family businesses. Downplays symptoms, we do not listen to your body. We proceed from the assumption that we will not happen. If you ask every other employee on a contract-order, for work or having their own business, the last time was at the doctor, almost everyone shrugged. Because since I lost time, there is no insurance company. Because since when is his, no time to stand in line to the clinic. Because I work by the hour, because the boss looks at his hands, he can not be late, and a day off there is no chance. As King (name changed), who for 10 years has been on a contract junk, because the company in which they work, are not considered full-time jobs. – Head openly told me that he will not be playing in all these ZUS-y, that it is too much hassle, control etc. That at his company operates either on their own operations and issues a monthly invoice, or on the job. For running a company I can not afford. After two years, when skończyłyby preferential rate, I’d go with the bags. In addition, the costs should I almost would kill me and no taxes. So I chose a contract for work. I pay the same health insurance – nearly 400 zł per month. But the chance of dismissal or paid leave do not have. Every two years the head in a fit of kindness give us a week of paid leave. Besides, everyone has to worry about himself. All the time I am looking for another job, but time in the last three years has not offered me one – says King. – I work by the hour, every hour less means less pay. Often I take more to earn some extra money. Average daily working about 12 hours. I go to the doctor once a year, as long as I can get before work. Not researching prophylactically, fortunately, rather I’m fine. I’m only 36 years.
More than a dozen hours a day and also worked frequently Marek. If he went to the doctor a few days earlier. If found that the malaise is not the usual fatigue, he may still be alive. Just like Dorothy M., doctor anesthetist from Białogard, who died in the hospital after four (and according to some sources, eight) days of on-call. Dorothy M. worked, because I did not want to refuse. Because she felt up to it. They were both forties. Marek 46, Dorota 44. Both dedicated work. Too.
Hardworking sounds proud
When the next statistical survey shows that Poles are one of the most industrious nations of the world, our sense of values growing. In the ranking of the OECD in terms of the number of hours worked hold second place in the entire European Union, and the fifth in the world. The report Ipsos Global we turn 11. position as the most busy country in the world. It sounds proudly. Better yet be busy than the lazy.
Robert, 39-year-old computer scientist, points out that today everyone has to be a workaholic. That force is the pressure of the environment. – The world is divided into those who do not have a job, and all others who are working at top speed. My friends also working late into the evening, often on weekends. Nobody is surprised. With two evils will be a workaholic than unemployed.
King Ślużyńska, psychologist, psychotherapist, warns, however, that the dependence of work is as common and as serious as alcoholism or drug addiction. – If the work begin to suffer our health, family relationships and friendships. If you can not remember the last time you did something other than work-related tasks, you should turn to us in the head red light. The boundary between diligence and workaholism is in fact extremely thin – explains Ślużyńska. – If you often work overtime at the expense of sleep and leave, and fatigue pour coffee, drink or tablet analgesic, it is a sign to stop and make a difference.
This is not normal, we are working 10-12 hours a day. And this is only according to official figures. Unofficially, we spend at work and 18 hours a day, which in the long term, even for a healthy body is a lethal dose. And although GUS bombards us further data about how it routinely go to the left sick, in fact, more than half of the workers had not been on vacation for a good few years. We go to work with a light flu, sore throat, bronchitis, and sometimes the lungs. Angina also at work is scary, like food poisoning. The only thing that can stop us for a while in the house, it rotavirus. Exemptions can only afford a full-time lucky, that from month to month wanes. If you look around the proximal and distal group, most people have long forgotten how L-4, not to mention the administration of leave. Because working “on the company” or on śmieciówkach do not have a statutory holiday. Every fourth person on your own is not resting more than two days the weekend of 3-4 years. At full capacity, pumping coffee, energy drinks, unhealthy eating, niedospaniem. Almost as workhorses.
reduced, conditional on success at work self-esteem, insomnia, mental tension, shaking hands, heart disease. – In the worst cases, fainting, heart attacks, permanent injury to – lists Margaret Osowiecka, a psychologist at the University of Social Psychology in Sopot. – I am familiar with cases of persons who have not slept a few nights in a row and have not lowered at all its levels of efficiency. We can bring itself to the edge strength at small signals from inside the body and in the absence of signals from the environment. Yet others see only our efficiency and energy. It is true that sometimes can betray us dark circles under his eyes, but if it falls comment … Sometimes we feel that something is wrong, it hurts our head, we see a general decline in energy, but to ignore it. We do not want to take off, denying problems.
Officially 5 percent. Poles have symptoms of workaholism. “What’s up 5 percent.” – Say workers. But extreme Earning from month to month passes to the growing population of workers. Changes, adapts to changes in the market. Zaharowanie A.D. 2016 is no longer even a seat at work from morning to night, but being on constant stand bayu. Availability, check business e-mail, view statistics. We are constantly turned on the power.
Margaret Kruk, a psychologist, a specialist in addiction therapy, a doctoral student at the Medical University of Warsaw, which coordinates portal for addicts behaviorally www.uzaleznieniabehawioralne.pl, stresses, however, that not all to stand bayu it workaholics. – The difference between one and the other lies in the fact that a person dependent on the work submits his whole life exclusively to action – explains psychologist. – Workaholic no other interests, can not effectively relax.
Although chronic fatigue, Mroczków before his eyes, the morning abdominal pain does not forgive. Research CBOS shows that the industry appreciates as much as 95 percent. respondents. As many of us believe that any work should be done with the heart, even if it is not especially significant. We believe that hard work is a necessary condition for achieving success in life and work that gives meaning to our existence. We’re working at top speed, often taking work home or additional orders, free time. As much as 7 percent. with about 16 million economically active Poles work several jobs.
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Dr. Kamil Wojdyło from the Institute of Psychology Academy of Sciences and the Department of Psychological and psychiatric Psychomedic in Warsaw specializes in psychotherapy dependence on labor and regulatory mechanisms of personality. He is an expert in knowledge of the pracoholizmie and treatment of the problem. For several years conducting research in the country and abroad, and clinical practice. In her view, we are seeing the ubiquitous rush of life and intensity to work. – In each individual case, however, the reasons for which a person works a lot, may be different. Addicts from work, for example, operate primarily motivated by compulsion. Basically, they do not need a boss or pressure requirements of the working environment in order to make the work. Every workplace can be used to earning, provided that the person has a predisposition to addiction. Research shows that the US, the work can become addicted, even leading household (not working professionally) – explains Dr. Wojdyło.
The research that Dr. Wojdyło leads and colleagues Polish and German, They show that workaholism is independent of age and sex. Always, however, it is associated with adverse health effects. – Workaholics continually work to cut off from their emotions, in every area of their lives. Lead to a state of paralysis feel your emotions. This condition refer to as anhedonia emotional. The paradox dependence of work is that the emotional state of anhedonia need for more labor, extreme sensations, to be able to feel anything. With the vicious circle of earning increasingly difficult to come out – adds Dr. Wojdyło.
“Earning this bread. There is no way to stay in Poland, working on a one-time “- that explains many wards Dr. Wojdyło. On the Work Passion, which leads you to know, among others, Juliet story. With the fear of making a mistake dragged working time indefinitely. She was constantly in operation. When a friend invited her for a weekend of cycling, he refused. One day, when no one of my friends did not call, she felt that she needed help. Described it is also the story of Hubert, Managing Director, who admits, was killed at his own success. He worked 16 hours a day, for years he was on leave. He had no children. He wanted to be constantly admired. Criticism felt as an insult. The group is also workaholics anonymous Monika, who from an early age she heard: “No pain, no gain.” Monica’s mother was a doctor, took care of the house and raised the children. This woman siłaczka. – Time must always be filled with something meaningful, it can not be waste – says Monika. Her parents divorced when she was 6 years old. Today we know that the source of addiction lie in the early years of childhood.
Dr. Alexander Hulewska, psychologist and psychotherapist, draws attention to another aspect related to the earning. – More and more often we deceive the consumer goods manufacturers who are trying to tell us what is important to us. We exchange so the phone for a better model, we buy a newer car, moving to a larger apartment to a minute to change them at even greater. Debt in to all this enough, and then work hard only beyond measure, to pay off debts. As aptly put it, the Dalai Lama: “We take your health to make money, and then devote their money to regain health.” – To work beyond measure on the one hand pushes us consumerism driven by large corporations, and the other – the emptiness, which is the aftermath of consumerism. In the latter case, compulsive working through a fully defensive function.
Death at a desk
Already in 1971. Wayne Oates, American pastor and psychologist , compared workaholism to alcoholism. Later, however, scientists have tried to give pracoholizmowi dimension as the most positive …. It was only in 1980. Marilyn Machlowitz began to portray a workaholic on the one hand as a creative person and hardworking, with other addictive to only one activity, which was able to subordinate everything. Work. There have been no However, if any research on addiction from it, treating the phenomenon rather as a pattern of behavior. It was only in the 90s there were terms such as “workaholic”, “addicted to work.” – We live in a large individualism, we prefer to fend for themselves. Television shows us a picture of constantly satisfied employees in stores in fashion forever smiling clerks. And how can you say that I am tired (s)? – Asks Osowiecka. – Of course, this type of doubt worsened by the lack of work, reaching many of us about the difficulties in finding work after graduation, the atmosphere in the family home or anxiety about life and the future of people aged 18-30 years. In old age, with workers already experienced professionally and in life, we have the issue of second youth, fear of repudiation by the younger ones, as well as burnout. According Osowiecki this type of thinking often results in increased emotional control, which in turn can cause serious problems somatic, myocardial infarction, inclusive.
According to the new theory of addiction to work – work craving that Dr. Wojdyło developed in 2013., a person must, among others, work in the style of obsessive-compulsive disorder and persistently strive to unrealistically high standards. No result of the work is not sufficient, it still must be more and better. The main objective of this work style is, according to the theory of Dr. Wodyło mending low self-esteem and reduce negative emotions.
– The perception of the symptoms of workaholism in the form of stress, overload or physical illness must involve the granting of an error. And this is difficult. The more difficult because of the different parts of the flow signals of approval and recognition for our dedication. Heads are satisfied with the number developed by us overtime, friends admire us for the next promotion, and traders rubbing their hands at the thought of our growing creditworthiness – adds turn Hulewska. – Zaharowując to enter a model for efficient employee, responsible head of the family, productive member of society and so on. Only a few are able to break away from the image and change the life course. The rest follows the path of leader of the work, even at the cost of losing health.
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