{"id":1727,"date":"2018-08-21T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2018-08-07T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:35:29","slug":"is-burnout-a-kind-of-posttraumatic-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/burnout-depression\/is-burnout-a-kind-of-posttraumatic-stress","title":{"rendered":"Is Burnout a Kind of Posttraumatic Stress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A concrete burnout may be linked to a concrete PTS. Or it may not. In both cases, you can use it to alleviate your present burnout.<\/h3>\n

One needs to be careful about what to regard as a \u2018trauma\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think the best way is to regard it as anything that is experienced as such. A post-trauma is then the aftermath of what is experienced as \u2018trauma\u2019, whether it\u2019s an event (or prolonged condition) that really happened or not. The important in PTS is thus not the past itself but the present. \u2018Forget the past\u2019.<\/p>\n

Well, in a way of course, that\u2019s what a PTS-sufferer should do:<\/p>\n

Forget the past.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not by cutting it out of one\u2019s memory, which isn\u2019t possible anyway.<\/p>\n

But by integrating it in one\u2019s present, so that only the present is important, including one\u2019s memories of the past\u2026 but still the present.<\/p>\n

This is a deeper meaning of \u2018living in the here and now\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the same time, it\u2019s a deeper insight in \u2018beginner\u2019s mind\u2019, since it\u2019s about always again, as if the first time. Really digesting the past happens now.<\/p>\n

And if you don\u2019t really digest it, you have a problem with motivation. Then you do things out of a past that isn\u2019t your present.<\/p>\n

That past may not even be relevant to you anymore<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

including the things through which you think<\/em> to be motivated. So, what happens: you don\u2019t burn your own fire.<\/p>\n

You burn out.<\/p>\n

Being traumatized by a \u2018past\u2019 \u2013 again: whether it happened or not \u2013 you get stuck in an energy-consuming turmoil. You may try to redeem this past through working very hard. At first, people admire you for your zest-to-work. You yourself may admire yourself for the same\u2026 until you burn out, slowly or suddenly.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not making the link PTS-burnout very strictly.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m pointing to possibilities. I\u2019m pointing to a way-of-looking at things. It may be to you, dear reader, a way-of-looking that helps you, that makes you look inside, guides you even.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s your combination with common sense that makes it worthwhile.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to you.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should take care for not pseudo-rationalizing things together, that don\u2019t belong together.<\/p>\n

And for the reverse.<\/p>\n

Anyway, be very gentle to yourself<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

as in any coaching (and self-coaching).<\/p>\n

So, very gently, you may communicate with your trauma. AURELIS-domain \u2018Post-traumatic stress<\/a>\u2019 may help you in this. Try to find in it layers of deep meaningfulness that can make you even more gently inclined. The aim is to let the \u2018trauma\u2019 see you as more human than otherwise, including the possibility to surpass your trauma and through this, to open yourself a bit towards a renewed motivation.<\/p>\n

Think of kindling a small fire in a little bunch of straw.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gently. Gently.<\/p>\n

If it doesn\u2019t start this way, you shouldn\u2019t force it. Even so, it\u2019s worthwhile to stay at it for a while, like staying in the presence of your own compassion.<\/p>\n

The \u2018trauma\u2019 may first and foremost be an asking for compassion<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more than any actual trauma of any kind. The compassion may be needed to alleviate your burnout and find new ways, not towards \u2013 again \u2013 the traumatizing past but towards a future of more-you-than-ever.<\/p>\n

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