Executive Stress and Burnout

IN: Therapy – Executive Stress and Burnout

Getting Help for Executive Stress and Burnout with In:Therapy

Executive stress and burnout are both on the rise across a plethora of industries. This page should tell you all you need to know about what executive stress is, what you can do about it, and how you can get help using an In:Therapy online therapy course.

What Is Executive Stress and Burnout?

If you look up executive stress in the Dictionary of Psychology [i], you will see that it is strain experienced by those on a management level because of the job. Burnout is simply the result of being under too much executive stress for too long.

Burnout is currently on the rise across all corporate levels. However, if people are feeling stressed at the bottom, you can be sure that they are feeling it even more intensely at the top.

What Causes Executive Stress and Burnout?

Burnout and executive stress are two different things. While executive stress is the strain put on you in a position of power within a corporate role [ii], burnout is what happens to you when you’ve been exposed to that stress for too long. Burnout is characterised by being within a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion [iii]. When it applies to an executive, it is the pressure of the job that causes it.

Burnout is common in several key areas of the workforce. Remote workers often experience burnout because they can’t switch off from work. Executives often experience burnout for the same reasons. If you can’t switch off from work, your work life balance is thrown into question. If you only work all the time and never get to enjoy your life, your worldview becomes skewed towards the negative.

You Are Not Alone: Statistics About Executive Stress and Burnout

If you’re suffering from executive stress, it’s important to remember that you’re not alone, although you should seek help as soon as you possibly can. Executive stress can result in hospitalisation for exhaustion [iv].

All kinds of work related stress are on the rise within Great Britain. A governmental report [v] released last year found that 3000 people per 100,000 in the workforce has claimed an increase in stress, depression, or anxiety due to work. The same report found 1,480 managers, directors, and senior officials per 100,000 people were suffering from work-related stress.

Spotting The Signs of Executive Stress

The Health and Safety Executive [vi] in the UK have laid out these instructions for spotting executive stress in the workforce. Look out for:

Higher Staff Turnaround
Increasing arguments
Higher volumes of sick days
Executives coming to work late
Decreased performance, motivation, and confidence.

If you notice any of these signs within your office or within yourself, then it could be executive stress.

Spotting The Signs of Burnout

Similarly, you can spot the signs of burnout. By the time you are suffering burnout, you have let your stress levels be too high for too long. Here are the signs that mean it is time to get help for executive stress.

Physical Signs of Burnout Include:

Exhaustion, you may wake up exhausted.
Lack of appetite.
Sweating, shaking, flinching, and feeling nauseous
Panic attacks

Emotional Signs of Burnout Include:

Detachment
Lack of motivation
Helplessness
An inability to see the positive side of things.
Depression and anxiety caused by prolonged stress.
Insomnia
Strain which leaks into your family life.

References:

[i] https://dictionary.apa.org/executive-stress

[ii] https://psychologydictionary.org/executive-stress/

[iii] https://psychologydictionary.org/executive-stress/

[iv] https://hbr.org/1996/07/when-executives-burn-out

[v] https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress.pdf

[vi] https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/signs.htm

[vii] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395613002604

Advantages

In:Therapy offer a range of online treatment programmes which can lead to successful treatment of executive stress and burnout. Our online therapy programmes can deal with depression and anxiety, helping you to tackle them within a 28 day treatment. Here are some of the advantages of treating Burnout and/or executive stress using an In:Therapy online therapy programme.

The Benefits of Seeking Help for Executive Stress and Burnout.

Seeking help to recover from executive stress before it leads to burnout is beneficial for both you and the company. Your health will not suffer, so you have a happier work and home life. On the other hand, the company benefits from a fresher, focused version of you, that can produce better work.

Studies [vii] have proven that occupational burnout leads to reduced executive function and performance. In short, the more stressed out your management are, the less productive they are.

There are other advantages of treating executive stress before it becomes burnout. Benefits include:

Better mental health.
Better physical health.
Better emotional health.
More productivity for your company.
you will recover your motivation and self-confidence.
You feel like your old self again.

Let’s not forget that seeking help for executive stress and burnout will lead to better family life. If you’re not constantly going home exhausted, you get to spend more quality time with your family.

Success

What constitutes a successful recovery from executive stress and or burnout? Here at In:Therapy we always say that only the individual can measure their own success. You are the only one who knows whether you feel better.

For us to consider therapy successful, it takes the individual to learn the techniques taught within the sessions and apply them to their own lives. Talking therapies are one part listening to what you have to say, and another part giving you the information you need to successfully navigate these thoughts, feelings, and emotions without becoming stressed or causing yourself harm. But again, you should measure your own success.

Say you are suffering from executive stress, and you have a problem answering the telephone at work. You may judge successful therapy as the removal of that anxiety. You may even judge successful therapy as learning that nothing bad is going to happen when you answer that telephone. This is a smaller step towards the same goal. Any progress is progress. Therapy betters your arsenal in dealing with the things that threaten you. It takes time to work.

Results

Taking one of our online therapy programmes will give you the defences you need to fight back against executive stress in future. Online therapy lets you avoid the hustle and bustle of a therapist’s office, and bypass some of that stigma as well. You can be seen and treated within the comfort of your own home or office.

When you have finished a successful therapy programme, you will have a deeper understanding of why your brain reacts the way it does. You will appreciate that your emotional and mental health are intricately connected to your physical health. Therapy arms you with the tools you need to build successful barriers to protect yourself in future. It gives you tools to manage the things that stressed you out to begin with. Success in a sense, is being able to apply these in your own life and in your own time once you have completed therapy sessions.

By speaking to a registered and highly experienced private anxiety disorders psychiatrist to help you deal with your anxiety, you will be able to rid of the disorder that may have robbed your freedom for such a long time. Those not afflicted by anxiety disorders simply cannot imagine the feeling of having your whole body being overwhelmed with fear or abject terror for largely no reason at all and without warning.

While many of the symptoms associated with anxiety disorders are both obvious and predictable, others have a tendency to go overlooked. By speaking to a registered and highly experienced private anxiety disorders psychiatrist to help you deal with your anxiety.

Advantages

Anxiety disorders manifest in many ways and no two cases are ever the same. However, there are certain types of anxiety disorders that present frequently, which include the following:

Generalised Anxiety Disorder – Feelings of worry and fear that manifest without any real trigger and can be overwhelming, often going on many hours of the day. There may be worrying thoughts, physical symptoms of worry such as a fast heart beat or breathing, sweating, stomach butterflies, a knot in one’s chest or just feeling muscular tension and on edge.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – Repetitive and distressing behaviours or thoughts are the key indicators of OCD. These thoughts or behaviours can be about hygiene, security, cleanliness, orderliness or just about anything.
Panic Disorder – Panic attacks that come out of nowhere and have no real explanation, or indeed may occur in specific contexts. A panic attack can involve a rapid heartbeat, shallow fast breathing and often a deep sense of dread.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – When an individual suffers from chronic anxiety in the wake of a traumatic or distressing event/period in life. The individual may experience unwanted flashbacks about the event, wake with nightmares, avoid situations that remind them of the trauma and be generally hyper vigilant, always on edge.
Phobias – these generally an irrational fear of something that is relatively harmless.

Success

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Generalised Anxiety Disorder – Feelings of worry and fear that manifest without any real trigger and can be overwhelming, often going on many hours of the day. There may be worrying thoughts, physical symptoms of worry such as a fast heart beat or breathing, sweating, stomach butterflies, a knot in one’s chest or just feeling muscular tension and on edge.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – Repetitive and distressing behaviours or thoughts are the key indicators of OCD. These thoughts or behaviours can be about hygiene, security, cleanliness, orderliness or just about anything.
Panic Disorder – Panic attacks that come out of nowhere and have no real explanation, or indeed may occur in specific contexts. A panic attack can involve a rapid heartbeat, shallow fast breathing and often a deep sense of dread.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – When an individual suffers from chronic anxiety in the wake of a traumatic or distressing event/period in life. The individual may experience unwanted flashbacks about the event, wake with nightmares, avoid situations that remind them of the trauma and be generally hyper vigilant, always on edge.
Phobias – these generally an irrational fear of something that is relatively harmless.

Results

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Generalised Anxiety Disorder – Feelings of worry and fear that manifest without any real trigger and can be overwhelming, often going on many hours of the day. There may be worrying thoughts, physical symptoms of worry such as a fast heart beat or breathing, sweating, stomach butterflies, a knot in one’s chest or just feeling muscular tension and on edge.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – Repetitive and distressing behaviours or thoughts are the key indicators of OCD. These thoughts or behaviours can be about hygiene, security, cleanliness, orderliness or just about anything.
Panic Disorder – Panic attacks that come out of nowhere and have no real explanation, or indeed may occur in specific contexts. A panic attack can involve a rapid heartbeat, shallow fast breathing and often a deep sense of dread.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – When an individual suffers from chronic anxiety in the wake of a traumatic or distressing event/period in life. The individual may experience unwanted flashbacks about the event, wake with nightmares, avoid situations that remind them of the trauma and be generally hyper vigilant, always on edge.
Phobias – these generally an irrational fear of something that is relatively harmless.

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