Constant fatigue and job burnout are bedfellows. Mental and physical ailments are both involved in job burnout. Chronic fatigue resulting from multiple factors that reduce one’s ability to cope with stress are reasons that lead to job burnout. Continuing stress in a person’s job is another causative agent leading to chronic fatigue and job burnout.

Burnout leads to mental withdrawal from the job due to:

* job strain

* work strain

* dissatisfaction at work

The main symptoms are:

* lack of motivation

* a poor attitude

* drawing away from contact with people

* declining attitude

Studies of burnout in the workplace indicate that about 25-35% of workers suffer from it. Research has looked at the function of the stress response system to understand its role but these results have been inconsistent. Tests of this nature are not good at detecting shades of gray and, as a result, cannot discriminate differing degrees of system function.

In other words, the dysfunction must reach a certain threshold of having broken down before conclusive decisions can be made. But our bodies function over a continuum from optimal to sub-optimal.

Because the objective testing has low power to detect any problems, the patient’s symptoms remain unexplained. As a result, treatment options are few and the patient continues to suffer while he’s told that there is nothing wrong.

What confounds the situation even further is that most diseases arise because of multiple causes. This is clearly the case in constant fatigue. In burnout, there is often decreased immune system functioning.

Some of the other causes of burnout and chronic fatigue are the lack of exercise, post-viral syndrome, depression, cellular toxicity, muscle weakness, and poor diet.

It’s important to understand that there are no effective therapies offered by modern medicine for all the millions of sufferers of chronic fatigue including fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

As a result, more and more people are looking into alternative therapies. Millions of people are actually now spending more money out-of-pocket on alternatives than on conventional medical care.

Many individuals report success with these therapies despite the criticisms of modern medicine. It makes claims of lack of studies even though much work and research has been completed. Medicine wants to maintain its stranglehold on all aspects of health care treatment.

Medicine is against the use of nutritional supplements and admonishes those who support their use. It formed opinions based on a belief system that supplements were of no value, not based on facts. In respect to diet, medicine still promotes low-fat eating despite the fact that it contributes to obesity, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases. Medicine doesn’t explore or do research on any of these topics and often makes unsubstantiated claims while accusing the other side of exactly the same action.