So That’s What It Was/Is/Has Been
[Jeffrey] Kleinberg, a New York City psychologist-psychotherapist, coined the term worker’s block, and defined it as “a rapid emotional, attitudinal and relational disengagement from the job, that may not be classifiable as an illness, yet is powerful enough to create a personal and, if widespread, a corporate crisis.” Worker’s block involves not all, but three of the symptoms listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s description of post-traumatic stress disorder: “markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities,” “feelings of detachment or estrangement from others,” and the “sense of a foreshortened future” (which means, as the author extrapolates, that the individual no longer expects to have a career).
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Later in his report, Kleinberg graciously uses plain English to explain the experience of someone who suffers from worker’s block: “The victim feels tired, and doesn’t really care.”
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Stout, Martha. The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior–and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage. New York: Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Strauss: 30-31.
pic by acdme, used with CC license
Hey, I have it too! I wonder if we can get disability.
My life in a nutshell right there.
sounds like a noted quack to me
Yup, here too. *raises hand* Seems there are enough here to start a support group.
And I love the way he broke it down at the end. LOL
Yeah, EJ, the break down does make it sing. That’s the part you feel.