CHAPTER 3: THE WORK ADDICTION SCALE
EXERCISE 1: DISCUSSION
1. How do you think being self-employed impacts work life balance?
2. What do you think happens when people do not have a good work life balance? Why?
3. How can we work towards maintaining a work life balance?
4. What does a good work life balance look like?
PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASE
Early Stage:
Rushing, busyness, caring, rescuing
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Inability to say "no"
Constantly thinking of work
Compulsive list making
• Exaggerated belief in one's own abilities • No days off • Hours exceed 40 consistently
Middle Stage:
Increase in other addictions begins
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• Food, alcohol, relationships, money, etc. • Social life diminished or nonexistent • Begin giving up relationships and relationship obligations • Attempts to change fail • Physically worn out, difficulty sleeping • Periods of comatose staring into space • Blackouts at work, on the road
Last Stage:
• chronic headaches, backaches, high blood pressure, ulcers, depression • stroke, serious illness, hospitalization • emotional deadness • moral and spiritual bankruptcy • death
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