Work addiction is often overlooked when it comes to diagnosing it as a mental health condition. The root of work addiction is the compulsive need to achieve success, positions, and productivity at the workplace, and also a means to escape emotional difficulties. Job success often reinforces the circuitry loop in the brain to sweat for more and feel unsatisfied with the current progress.
Online counseling psychology services often come across adults who sabotage their personal life, physical health, mental health, and relationships in pursuit of unrealistic job success stemming from work addiction. People who have faced traumatic or emotionally stressful situations, resorting to overworking as a coping mechanism are a common group of people who seek help with online counseling psychology services. In modern times, the onset of hustle culture has played a huge role in increasing the prevalence of work addiction.
How Can I Identify Someone or Myself With Work Addiction?
People having this condition seek online counseling psychology services, however, a major chunk of them are unaware of it. They come in with feelings of dissatisfaction in their personal life, severed personal relationships, problematic social life, and more.
Here are a few characteristics you can look out for:
- Working long hours, even when it is not required.
- Sacrificing sleep to engage or take up tasks.
- Overcompensating at work due to immense fear of failure.
- Having paranoid thoughts about work-related concerns, co-workers.
- Recurrently resorting to unethical or manipulating means to achieve success.
- Poor social relationships at work.
- Pursuing work as means to cope with feelings of depression, inferiority, or guilt.
- Using work as means to deal with personal issues like the death of a loved one, broken marriage, or financial insufficiency.
How Would We Diagnose It?
By connecting with our online counseling psychology services, you will be introduced to scientifically sound means to diagnose work addiction. We use standardized tools, scales, and questionnaires, approved by the RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) to evaluate if you have work addiction.
These scales, tools, and questionnaires administered through our online counseling psychology services carry out an in-depth analysis of your personal life.
The questions can inquire about:
- How often do you find free time from your work?
- How much does work help you reduce feelings of depression, guilt, and personal crises?
- How often have you dejected the advice or requests to cut slack from overworking?
- Whether your stress response shoots up, if not working.
- How much are you lacking in physical activities, to seek hobbies or leisure time?
You’ll be required to answer these questions to the extent of how much you agree or disagree about it.
How Do We Treat It?
Our online counseling psychology services have been successfully handling work addiction for a long time. Apart from severe work addiction, which requires an inpatient rehabilitation program, most clients come with low to moderate levels of the condition. This can be very well dealt with from the comfort of your home.
You’ll be working with our trained counselors at an individual level and also with a focus group. However, this can vary depending on your current state of work addiction and specific requirements.
The Focus group method of treatment in our online counseling psychology services, helps you connect with people having conditions similar to you. This can be a formidable support mechanism that helps you recover from work addiction much faster.
Work addiction can also occur alongside other psychological disorders, thus availing of our online counseling psychology services can help you identify and mitigate it if you have any.