The days of the regular 9 to 5 workday, 40-hour week and relaxing vacations have all but gone by the wayside. Today, they have more often than not been replaced by workdays with no set timeframe, a workweek consisting of up to 60 hours or more and vacations that are for the most part nonexistent. With such extreme changes in modern work habits, things such as relationships, health and lifestyles suffer. Sadly, this disorder is not new to researchers nor is it as small as a problem as most people think it is. People that worked harder and longer than needed were considered ideal employees in the past. Today, companies are implementing mandatory time-off as to battle the addiction to work. Researchers have discovered that not only is there one type of workaholic but there are in fact four different types of workaholics, which consist of the bulimic workaholic, the relentless workaholic, the attention-deficit workaholic and finally the savoring workaholic. With so many differences in workaholism, how exactly is it defined, where does it start and how exactly do we deal with it effectively?
To begin, workaholism can be described as an addiction to work, a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder that is characterized by perfectionism, inflexibility and preoccupation of work. Many people seem to confuse this type of addiction as someone who has to put in hard work and/or put in long hours. For example, a farmer who rises in the early morning hours to tend to his livestock and does not return home until after plowing the fields is considered as someone who has to log long hours to make a living. In contrast, people such as a lawyer, can be described as a workaholic. Lawyers tend to work long hours on cases that do not require such grueli...
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...use that you are willing to work on your relationship.
To conclude, workaholism is no laughing matter, with such health risks and relationship troubles, it could truly ruin or even end your life. Not only is your spouse worrying about you, but also so are your friends and coworkers that you tend to neglect to get your all-important work done. If you do not seek help to give them peace of mind, then please seek the help to help yourself. No amount of work is so important as to risk your life for it.
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