Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
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#2I would posit that deeper psychological issues are what lead someone to workaholism (as a maladaptive coping mechanism). I believe it is a symptom of a larger issue which is what ultimately leads to the problems with mental and physical health.
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#3Typical case of inverting cause and effect.
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#4Difficult to disagree, especially when you are working on a job that is not satisying intellectually and emotionally. All the money in the world doesn't help
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#5Typical case of inverting cause and effect.
Or an incidence of correlation and not causation. Not that correlation does not mater.
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#6I believe workaholists do not neccesarily love their job, but hate something else so much that they would rather find some place to take a bit of rest.
I think I'm developing into one...
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#7I would posit that deeper psychological issues are what lead someone to workaholism (as a maladaptive coping mechanism). I believe it is a symptom of a larger issue which is what ultimately leads to the problems with mental and physical health.
Sometimes lack of social contact or purpose in life, abuse, loneliness and depression can lead to workaholism, sometimes it's having drunk the cool-aid and chasing the carrot on the stick, or even more common, it's simply lacking better employment options in your area leading you to cave in to soft pressure from your employer which then leads to burn-out/depression.
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#8Learned this the hard way. Spent the last 7 years grinding text books resulting in a place on a Masters in CS and a ~$200k income while working remotely from the UK (without a degree, at 26). Whole purpose was to earn as much as I could and it took over my life. Now I’m on antidepressants and overweight. Recently quit my uni course and job, and settled for a role around $65k with a New Years resolution to never be a workaholic again. Feeling better already :)
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#9I would posit that deeper psychological issues are what lead someone to workaholism (as a maladaptive coping mechanism). I believe it is a symptom of a larger issue which is what ultimately leads to the problems with mental and physical health.
Yeah, I know someone whose workaholism is caused by abuse experienced during childhood. It's so obvious to me.
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#10I would posit that deeper psychological issues are what lead someone to workaholism (as a maladaptive coping mechanism). I believe it is a symptom of a larger issue which is what ultimately leads to the problems with mental and physical health.
Yeah, I know someone whose workaholism is caused by abuse experienced during childhood. It's so obvious to me.
It is unfortunately extremely common.