Western Medicine

The burnout syndrome is the result of prolonged extreme stress and overload - Concerned speak exploitation operate on their own bodies. This persistent strain may directly or indirectly, a number of illnesses and complaints for violations. For this reason, you should see a doctor and must first it checked thoroughly.

Possible complications:

•  Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung and kidney diseases, these diseases often begin insidiously with vague symptoms

•  Vitamin and mineral deficiencies, notably iron, B12 and folate

•  Food intolerances: these often develop slowly and in the long run on energy and weakness, as the nutrient uptake is impaired in the body, it is often such as to wheat or gluten intolerance (celiac disease)

•  Endocrine disorders: fatigue and listlessness stuck behind many thyroid diseases

Sick leave

If you suffer from burn-out syndrome, you should get ill write you! Because if you just go on as before, your symptoms worsen and you may need longer to recover from the burn-out.

Nutrition

Your body is now more than ever dependent on a healthy diet. If you are from your doctor on this issue does not feel sufficient guidance, please contact a nutritionist. Be careful in all cases with dietary advice from the Internet - here are circulating a lot of misinformation.

Drugs

For drugs, you should first be careful. Since your body is weakened, he must under no circumstances (strong) medication.

Chronic fatigue syndrome

The "burn-out syndrome" is so far in western medicine is not recognized as a diagnosis. In a sick, your doctor may use a different term, such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" (or "CFS" from English "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"). at diagnosis are taken into account only the acute symptoms without the underlying causes are being investigated, it is very likely that the burn-out syndrome occurs again after a while. To treat the burn-out syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome effectively and to avoid a recurrence of symptoms, it is important to make the search for the true causes of the disease. Guilt is usually the exhaustion of energy reserves of the body. By treating the superficial symptoms of the problem can be solved permanently. While there is, for example in the case of depression important to address the superficial symptoms at first, but it is to determine the long term is crucial, the real cause of the burn, as a long-term effective treatment of burn-out syndrome, otherwise not possible.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a variant of chronic fatigue syndrome, which is associated with muscle pain and changes in the brain and the muscle fibers. The treatment of ME is much more complicated than that of the burn-out syndrome, and in some cases, the treatment impossible. In most cases, the patients suffer first under a burn-out syndrome before the ME occurs, and the body is already weakened. Several factors contribute to the ME in already weakened patients. These include infections (such as mononucleosis, also known as glandular fever), or certain medications such as antidepressants. If the medication is essential, you should monitor your physical condition and your body's response to the medication by an acupuncturist.