The 2010 Best Actress Oscar winner announced in March that she was temporarily retiring from show business. It was during the promotion of her latest film, The Lost City, that she stated that the time had come to take a break from the world of acting.
The actress assured at that time that she should stop for her family, for her well-being. To enjoy everything that she had missed during the time that she only dedicated herself to work.
The news caused a stir, although many believed that this would not be true. The truth is that now, the actress has spoken about it again in The Hollywood Reporter where he pointed out what his great reason was for what he decided to leave the film industry.
“I don’t want to be beholden to anyone’s schedule but my own. I am so burned. I am so tired and I am not able to make healthy and intelligent decisions and I know it, “said the actress.
“Work has always been constant for me and I have been very lucky, but I realized that it was becoming my crutch. It was like opening a refrigerator all the time and looking for something that was never there,” she added.
What is Burnout Syndrome?
As the actress stated, Burnout syndrome can be translated as “burnt worker syndrome”, which is described as emotional exhaustion that sometimes causes excess work.
This syndrome is not defined as a medical condition, but as chronic stress, said Lotte Dyrbye, a physician and scientist who studies job burnout at the Mayo Clinic, as reported by the New York Times.
On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) points out that burnot is a labor phenomenon characterized by the feeling of exhaustion, apathy and reduced efficiency.
“You start to not function very well, you miss deadlines, you get frustrated, and you’re often irritable with your colleagues,” said Jeanette M. Bennett, a researcher studying the effects of stress on health at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. .
It should be noted that some of the changes associated with people who suffer from this syndrome often present apathy with their work activities, emotional fatigue, physical symptoms such as pain, sleep disorders and even hypertension.