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About SARBC
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Burnout Quiz
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.
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