Work
addiction is a syndrome that one works hard and cannot live without doing work,
which means that it is a sort of disease. However, the word 'compulsion' must
be included in its name because the passion for work also makes also make one
work hard. Passion is generated by enjoying working, liking somebody, having
fun doing something, etc. Work addiction is not the passion for work but the
compulsive desire for working that can only be relieved by working. It is a
psychological disorder.
People
say that work addiction is not a bad thing. Rather, they like it. Some say that
they would like to be addicted to work. For some of you, your spouse or family
could say to you, 'get addicted to your work please.' It is because work
addiction is followed by wealth and honor by obtaining economic and social
values. This work addiction could be valuable to your spouse, children, and
other family members even though it is a psychological disorder.
The
biggest problem of work addiction is that work is the cause of compulsion and
the object of relieving the compulsion. That is to say that stress is generated
due to work and can only be relieved by doing work. It is not relieved by
anything else. Work is the powerful stress and the only way to heal the stress.
A work addict relieves stress by doing work whenever stress is generated,
regardless of its kind. If strong stress is generated by fighting against someone,
this person relieves his or her stress by doing work. Whether it is compulsion
or stress, the work addict relieves it by work. Compulsion is formed
immediately when a small piece of information about work is perceived. The
strong and compulsive desire for doing work is formed by ideas, creativity,
other things that remind working to the work addict. This person suffers from
the compulsion that causes him or her feeling as if he or she would fall behind
or as if ideas would disappear. The work addict can be free from the compulsion
and feel comfortable and happy only if this person gets to work. Therefore,
work addiction is the same as living in compulsions, strong stress, and wounds.
We can see that work addiction is a
problem, which has occurred in the mind. When looking at the system of the
mind, psychology is composed of migenes that generates mind energy, habits
being operated by migenes, and perception being operated, felt, and recognized
by habits.
People do not believe that there is
the energy of the mind. The existence of the energy of the mind can be
recognized even though it cannot be proved. Think about a person who fell into
the water. The person will float on the water if he or she relaxes but will
sink in water if he or she doesn't. You should think about why the person can
either float on or sink in the water even though there is no change in his or
her body weight. Also, a drunk person can be considered as he or she is not
conscious. A person, who is tanked up, is very heavy, heavier than when the
person is awake. Moreover, a dead body, the state of where both the conscious
and the unconscious are stopped, is much heavier than the drunk person. All of
these are phenomena you can directly and indirectly experience. The reason for
feeling changes in the bodyweight by operations of the conscious and the
unconscious although there is no change is due to the operation of mind energy.
Habit, the unconscious, is operated
by migenes which create the mind energy; this energy can be used for either
good or bad depending on how the psychology of habit and of the conscious are
operated. Because of this, work addiction causes the repetitive phenomena of
having stress and wounds aroused by compulsion and of relieving the compulsion;
the mind energy affects the psychology of habit and the conscious abnormally. This
is why the mind energy is supplied as bad energy. The problem is that the
psychology of habit and psychology of the conscious also have impacts on the
body. If the psychology of habit and psychology of the conscious operate as bad
energy, the body is also supplied with bad energy.
Therefore, a work addict could
suddenly have a serious physical illness or a heart attack (sudden death) with
a high possibility. Of course, it has not been yet proven medically, but if a
person has a serious physical illness or heart attack (sudden death), you must
think about work addiction as its cause. I just assume that it is because the
mind energy is used as bad energy and has negative impacts on the body.
Moreover, prevention and treatment
are important since stress and wounds are caused by compulsion because work
addiction generates not only psychological or physical problems, but it could
also cause another psychological disorder or serious addiction. Other types of
addiction may occur psychologically. Also, it may occur physically, such as
neurologically-based disorders, somatization disorders, or physical diseases. It
is not irrelevant to say that people with psychological disorders suffer with high
stress and wounds including headache, migraine, gastroenteric trouble,
irritable bowel syndrome etc. in most cases.
Like
this, in the mind, bad energy of wounds and stress has an impact on the
psychology of habit and of the conscious. Despite the values of life generated
from being addicted to work, it must be understood that the body and the mind
could be negatively affected by psychological disorders.
Work
addiction and having lots of work are different. Tiredness due to excessive
work is physical fatigue. This type of tiredness is recovered if the person
gets rest comfortably; at this point, rest is the healing. However, people accumulate tiredness when they have more
work. It will result in them to suffer chronic fatigue syndrome because they
form compulsions on work addiction, which can be relieved by working. This could be a very serious circumstance and is the reason why
work addiction is dangerous.
Another
problem is that the object of compulsion can be changed from work to another
one. A person is a work addict if the object of his or her compulsion is work,
a gambler if it is a gamble, and a drug addict if it is drugs. So, work addition must not be neglected by perceiving it
as valuable. It is important to keep the level of addiction and prevent it from
being changed to another kind of addiction. If addiction that damages others
has occurred as well, this addiction must be treated and prevented it from
being changed to another kind. If it is not recognized, people, especially
those of you who have gained social status, honor, and economic wealth, might
lose everything at once as the object of their compulsion changes although they
have made values of a successful life.
Thus, if you think you are a work
addict, you'd better prevent or treat the addiction for the reason mentioned
above and the additional reason that you could damage not only yourself, but
also others. You should know that many people lose the values they have gained
after they become successful in their business or work because their work
addiction has changed to another kind. As already it mentioned several times,
addiction can be changed to another kind; it causes problems not only to
oneself, but also to others. Making values of life is important, but you must
understand that keeping the values is more important. Living hard is good, but
make sure to know and understand that work addiction is a dangerous
psychological disorder.
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