The Workaholics

Why workaholics tend to misuse the power that is the result of their overly-ambitious goals and their reputation for having a public persona that broadcasts their success.

Have you been called a "control freak"?

Are you aware of when you are using one of the defense mechanism that support denial?

What happens to your health as the workaholic breakdown spirals downwards?

How often have you laughed lately?

How would you rate your own spirituality?

Burnout

Workaholic Breakdown: Second Turning Point

Barbara Killinger Ph.D. on December 10, 2012

The loss of integrity is a tragic outcome that occurs as the workaholic breakdown progresses.

The loss of integrity is a tragic outcome that occurs as the workaholic breakdown progresses.

Are you becoming more confused about knowing exactly how you feel and think, or should feel or think? Have you started to need to look to others to give you clues?

Workaholics eventually lose their ability to be intimate. Find out why.

How would you rate your present level of empathy and compassion, and has this changed because of your obsession with work?

Workaholics experience a loss of communication skills when their crippled Feeling function no longer informs their judgment. Language, behavior, and values change.

Only by bringing into conscious awareness the escalating fears of failure, boredom, laziness, discovery, self-discovery, and paranoia will workaholics begin to recognize that something is seriously wrong.

Guilt, because it signals the need for corrective action, is a healthy response when one’s insensitive and thoughtless behavior and irresponsible wrongful actions negatively affect and trouble others.

Dependent on others to affirm their self worth, workaholics suffer a crisis of confidence as the six escalating fears discussed in the previous blog, especially the fear of failure and increasing paranoia, cause anxiety levels to climb and eventually destabilize functioning.

Six escalating fears.

Perfectionism and obsession can lead to high levels of ego-inflated self-absorption that encourages the development of neurotic narcissistic traits.

In order to further understand one of the inner dynamics of workaholism—that perfectionism leads to obsession, and in turn, obsession leads to increasing levels of narcissism—our focus now turns to the role that obsession plays.

Perfectionism

Understanding the Dynamics of Workaholism—Perfectionism

Barbara Killinger Ph.D. on January 23, 2012

Our topic is the particular role that perfectionism plays in our understanding of one of the interacting dynamics of workaholism—that perfectionism leads to obsession, and in turn, obsession leads to increasing levels of narcissism.

Our topic is the particular role that perfectionism plays in our understanding of one of the interacting dynamics of workaholism—that perfectionism leads to obsession, and in turn, obsession leads to increasing levels of narcissism.

Are you a workaholic?

How to achieve inner balance.