Question 1351 — diseases

Summary

Mr. Joël Giraud draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the consideration of professional exhaustion syndrome (burnout). It was in the 1970s that for the first time, Herbert Freudenberger, psychoanalyst and practitioner, used the term burnout to describe this internal burning, a consequence of the stress felt by people exercising helping professions. It combines deep fatigue, a disinvestment in professional activity, and a feeling of failure and incompetence at work. Today the expression burnout is very popular in the media. However, there is no standard medical definition. Burnout is described as a process as much as a state, leading to physical, intellectual and emotional collapse caused by a major and lasting change in the pace of professional life. He However, it manifests itself through very physical first symptoms that are often diffuse and likely to be attributed to other pathologies because almost in all cases the progression occurs insidiously. Like any pathology, burnout can be detected and prevention must involve early diagnosis. Based on the precedence of research carried out in Canada or Germany where the Deutsches Institut für medizinische Dokumention und Information, an institute of the Federal Ministry of Health, has issued an evaluation report relating to the different diagnoses of professional burnout syndrome, patients, more and more numerous, are calling for a medical research program aimed at diagnosing the disease for patient care and recognition of occupational disease, the development of a diagnostic identification grid intended for health professionals. The German institute strives to study the biochemical causes of psychological illnesses, including burnout which is not depression but whose poor management can lead to depression. By developing a research program, training doctors, and enabling early medical diagnosis, burnout, a process of degradation, could be stopped. Also, he asks her to kindly make its intentions known so that patients no longer have to face the consequences of diagnostic wandering which results in a lack of care, abusive psychiatrization, career damage and very often precariousness.

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