SELF CARE AND BURNOUT

SELF CARE AND WE!

Hello from Dr.Arif, your friend.

Suppose there is a surgeon who was on day duty and while leaving was requested to stay on night duty as surgeon who was supposed to be on night duty is not able to come for night duty due to high fever and COVID!

Surgeon in most cases will give night duty, or for that matter any teacher, policeman will also accept request and do duty for another night.

But what if next morning surgeon is asked to do same?

Well might be surgeon or teacher will finally agree.

Dear friends tell me one thing what will happen to such a surgeon or teacher? Certainly fall ill and that too severely.

That is what happens when we ignore stress or do not adhere to a disciplined life style, we will talk with friends all night, do as our friends say. And we know when we are under stress we eat lot of junk food.

Even if somebody says to me surgeon was doing right thing by agreeing to continuous duty, yes surgeon was helping but at cost of his/her own health.

In life sooner or later we need to learn an important art, the art of saying NO in a polite manner.

Remember we cannot help all the people all the time whether in professional or personal life.

We need to fix limits. And lastly note it that SELF CARE is not being SELFISH.

SELFCARE to me is keeping my health good whether emotional or physical so that I can help in real sense myself and all those who seek help be it my family friends or strangers.

 Author can be mailed at

arifmaghribi@yahoo.com