In the Netherlands, too much burnout: the biggest crisis ever recorded

Life in a performance society is beginning to wreak havoc: the growing number of people suffering from burnout in the Netherlands costs society up to 20 billion euros a year . In addition, the disease causes permanent brain damage in many people. This should be different, says Erik Matser, a clinical neuropsychologist in Helmond. "If we continue like this, we do not need an atomic bomb to completely eradicate us.We need a different way of life to avoid a catastrophe."

Matser relies on figures previously provided by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). "In the Netherlands, about one in five people do not work because of stress and burnout," said Matser. "These people are literally too tired to work because of a lack of energy.In addition, hundreds of thousands of people work, but often suffer from problems such as depression and anxiety. People are slowly curing various diseases and the underlying cause is stress and psychological imbalance, and these people are often in rotation as often as they burn out. "These are usually relatively young people, he says. declared.

Young people without life force

According to Matser, there is still an upward trend in the youth problem. "In my office, I meet people of about twenty who have no life force, no energy, no creativity and whose vision of the future is black. . " According to him, this concerns the society in which too many people are inundated with information. Eighty percent of his students indicate that they can not spend a day without a cell phone and without an email. "The brain is constantly under high voltage and can not stand that in many young people."

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Pressing the Accelerator

According to Matser, all of this is linked to the influence of persistent stress on the brains making them work worse and changing brain tissue. "The brain works best with a good balance of stress hormones (the accelerator) and growth hormone (braking / accumulation / recovery function) .Our company encourages kicks from the accelerator and ignores the brakes, which has caused many young people an imbalance and serious illness for a long time. "The Harvard Medical School has recently shown that living in a stressful environment literally destroys nerve cells because

The Greatest Crisis of All Time

According to Matser, the western world is about to experience the greatest crisis of all time ever caused by stress. The man as a species no longer works in today 's society, which already has disastrous consequences. "The only reason we can pay for this misery is because the economy is doing well, but people who develop brain dysfunction due to stress often never come back properly."