Shades of RSJ - remember where, Telstra in particular,  had all these folk who had to be off work due to straining ligaments working with fingers etc. Or some such. May have got what it actually was wrong but it faded away. 

I had RSI (repetitive strain injury)...worked in a very big typing pool for 5 years and it was real.   Did not have time off work other than had my wrist strapped up and did other work until it came good.

I agree Ted, they do not cure only put a band aid on the problem.

Couldn’t agree with you more KIAH. Doctors and nurses are in grave danger of burnout. Interesting to note burnout was recognized by Hippocrates and Plato thousands of years ago in ancient Greece, so it’s nothing new!

We face an epidemic of physician burnout that challenges individual doctors, including cardiologists and oncologists especially. The hours are long and unpredictable, and the work is physically and mentally challenging. Yes, they do earn a lot but what good is that when many of them suicide because they can’t cope.

Nurses all over the Western world face trauma every day and here in Perth the Nurses Union are pushing for danger money for their nurses who are under attack constantly from ICE addicted "patients."

Sophie I think that ICE addicted people should be treated in a completely seperate place where the nurses and doctors are specially trained to deal with them. In fact anyone who is showing signs of violence.

So true, so many carers are suffering, they don't get time for themselves to take time out and often care for their own health.

I remember doing a 4day week some 50 years ago but they were 10 hour shifts and with the meal break you actually spent 12 hours at work .... cannot recall anybody suffering from "burnout"

What did you do on the 5th day? Prepare the chicks for market? hahahahaha

With you there jackie.

It is crazy to be working at something that induces stresses you are not happy to have. Get into something you want to do.

Not just some artists and some billionaires race through 80-90 hour weeks and have happy lives. They are doing what they want but plumbers or nurses, anyone, can live and breathe their work too enjoying much fewer hours and, more holidays and time for to develop other interests.

There really should be no excuse for getting 'stressed.' I think it is a vastly overused condition that should be countered best by any of 3 things. Doing something else, taking a deep breath and fogetting about yourself for a while, getting out into the real world. The same people who cry that they are overstressed are often comparatively well paid (like nurses) with comparatively good conditions (like nurses) good security (like nurses), many others have it a whole lot worse so stress must come from their unreasonable expectation of these things or their expectation of the culture or the way the system does things and their innability to manage it in their own way. We know it is not because humans are incapable of the output. Still comes back to jackie's remedy being the likely pick.

One nurse in my experience, just one and I must have come across many did just that, he was so excited with his field that he wanted to understand everything related including efficiency in managing the processes. A wealth of information. The happiest, most enlightened and most effective nurse I have ever seen (although the wonderful one who carried me on her shoulders around the hospital in Eastern Sydney as an 8 year old was really happy too ...as long as she managed to keep out of matrons sight.) 

And many people over 50 are trying to survive on Newstart without hope of getting work, that is a possibility of at least 17 years on Newstart. No wonder many end up on anti-depressants and then often become homeless as well.

Add to that the stress of being a working mother. In my view there are no supermoms..there are only moms waiting for burnout to happen. Women (or men) who have to juggle home life, raising of children and a job outside the home deserve a medal.

Exhaustion in the workplace is common among both men and women but a new study in 2017 has revealed an alarming difference in the rates at which it is suffered between the sexes and women appear to be the ones who suffer the most.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23305221

Can't get a link to the 2017 study