Burnout Quiz

SARBC

Search and Rescue Society of British Columbia

Assign a number from 1 ( for no or little change) to 5 (for a great deal of change).

_____ 1. Do you tire more easily? Feel fatigued rather than energetic?

_____ 2. Are people annoying you be telling you, "You don't look so good lately"?

_____ 3. Are you working harder and harder and accomplishing less and less?

_____ 4. Are you increasingly cynical and disenchanted?

_____ 5. Are you often invaded by a sadness you can't explain?

_____ 6. Are you forgetting" (appointments, deadlines, personal possessions)

_____ 7. Are you increasingly irritable? More short-tempered? More disappointed in the people around you?

_____ 8. Are you seeing close friends and family members less frequently?

_____ 9. Are you too busy to do even routine things like make phone calls or read reports or send out christmas cards?

_____ 10. Are you suffering from physical complaints? (aches, pains, headaches, a lingering cold)

_____ 11. Do you feel disoriented when the activity of the day comes to a halt?

_____ 12. Is joy elusive?

_____ 13. Are you unable to laugh at a joke about yourself?

_____ 14. Does sex seem like more trouble than it's worth?

_____ 15. Do you have very little to say to people?

_______ TOTAL (from H. Freudenberger and G. Richelson)

Don't let a high total alarm you, but pay attention to it. Burnout is reversible, no matter how far along it is. The sooner you start being kinder to yourself, the better.

0 - 25

fine

26 - 35

there are things you should be watching

36 - 50

you're a candidate

51 - 65

you are burning out

over 65

you're in a dangerous situation, threatening to your physical and mental well-being.