Norman Swan
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10,140 appearances
108 recordings
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A lot of people call it burnout.
Now, there's no medical condition called burnout, but that doesn't mean that the feelings you get in a job can be significant.
But burnout is really a manifestation of chronic stress.
And there have been studies about what determines this feeling of chronic stress in the workplace that some people call burnout.
And it could be that you've got a lousy boss who's micromanaging you and not allowing you to make your own decisions and set goals.
It could be that there's unreasonable goals being set for you.
It could be that the job you thought you were going into was not the job that turned out.
It could be that you're a square peg in a round hole.
And there are various solutions for this, which sometimes work and sometimes don't.
Going to your supervisor, telling them about it, and seeking changes.
right down to maybe you are a square peg in a round hole and you're just in the wrong job for your skill set, in which case you need to look around for another job or the company needs to find you another place.
So there are ways through this.
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help talk you through that.
And social policy, such as reducing disadvantage without taking away decision-making capacity from people, in other words, strengthening their decision-making capacity in an environment where you actually have more financial control of your life,
will also reduce chronic stress.
And that's possibly the hardest thing of all to change.
And I think that for somebody like Daniel, and you've got autism spectrum disorder, then it can be quite hard to solve it for yourself.
And that's where an experienced clinical psychologist who's well-trained in evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy can actually work things through for you and help you see things with a more objective light.
And you shouldn't necessarily think you've got to solve all this for yourself, even though I've talked about taking control.
Sometimes you've got to have a strategy for doing it, which requires a bit of cognitive restructuring, which is very hard for any of us to do and sometimes just needs some assistance.
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