What’s Driving Your Work Addiction?

People may make offhand or joking comments that their husband, wife or other relative is a workaholic. However there are people who are truly addicted to work. Work addiction is considered a process addiction, and process addictions are closely related to other forms of addiction. A work addiction may also be related to an anxiety problem like obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD). Recognizing the signs of work addiction is fairly easy, but encouraging someone who can’t stop working to seek out professional help is often more of a challenge.
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Is My Loved One a Workaholic?

Many behaviors can become habitualized or addictive. While drug and alcohol addiction involves both a physical and psychological dependence, behavioral addictions are purely psychological. These disorders can be very serious, as it is difficult to maintain a normal lifestyle, healthy relationships, steady employment and important hobbies or passions when a particular behavior becomes compulsive. This can lead to anxiety, depression or substance abuse.
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Helping a Workaholic/Alcoholic Get Help

It can be difficult to see a friend or loved one succumb to the disease of alcoholism. When that condition arises from or leads to co-occurring disorders such as work addiction, it can be even more troubling and confusing. In some cases a compulsive behavior such as working causes deep emotional or psychological distress that a person self-medicates with alcohol. Unraveling causes and effects can be frustrating and fruitless for a concerned bystander, but there are some things a person can do to help a workaholic and alcoholic get help.
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Work Addiction Therapy

The symptoms of work addiction may include the following:

• You tend to take on more work than everyone around you
• You feel anxious about your work when you leave the office
• It is hard to take a vacation and when you do, you think about your work
• Your family or loved ones claim that you are not available or that you never spend time with them anymore

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Workaholic Recovery

A recent study by the National Sleep Foundation, researchers found that U.S. workers now work an average of 46 hours a week, and more than 38% of workers surveyed worked more than 50 hours each week. Working long hours at a job you love and are passionate about while working toward an achievable goal is admirable. Working until family life, relationships and personal health suffer is dangerous.
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Workaholic Intervention

A workaholic is someone who is addicted to working. In the most severe stages, a workaholic values her job over everything else in life. When work becomes the top priority over family and friends, workaholism can become destructive. Workaholism destroys families and can lead to serious stress-related health problems such as heart attack and stroke.

There is a distinct difference between a hard worker and a workaholic. A person who simply works hard knows the boundaries between work and personal life. They enjoy leisure time with family and friends and no have no problems functioning outside of their work. A true workaholic cannot function outside of their work, and devote no personal time to family or friends. If a person displays signs of being a workaholic, an intervention may be the only thing that can help them. (more…)

Work Addiction Overview

Business professionals face challenging obstacles today that are otherwise coined as “life balance” choices. This dynamic has become one of great concern in assessing both the physical and mental health of today’s business professional in the workplace. Workaholism or work addiction results from a multitude of serious problems that are neither gender nor industry specific. In short, this problem is affecting corporations, organizations and talented individuals from every occupation and industry.
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Signs and Symptoms of Work Addiction

Work addiction is a process addiction. A process addiction is an addiction to certain behaviors or processes that alter mood and brain chemistry. The term addiction encompasses any recurring compulsion or obsession by an individual despite negative consequences in their life and an inability to cease the activity and end it permanently. It becomes a problem when there is no balance and boundaries are weak. As with drug and alcohol addiction, usually a bottom has to be reached before the individual will realize there is a problem especially when someone who overworks is much more rewarded by society than a heroin addict. A work addiction type is actually a manifestation of any number of underlying emotional and psychological issues. (more…)