You can schedule a consultation with Dr. Ioana Silion, on the Digital Clinics platform, here: Consult Dr. Ioana Silion
The “Let’s talk about BurNOut” campaign, which aims to draw attention to the effects that professional burnout can have on health, is coordinated by Dr. Ioana Silion.
Collaborator of the Digital Clinics telemedicine platform, Ioana Silion is a primary care psychiatrist, UMF Carol Davila Bucharest. She completed a master’s degree in Deviance, Criminality and Social Intervention at the University of Bucharest and is a doctoral student in medical sciences at UMF Carol Davila Bucharest.
”I have worked in multinational corporations, in state and private medical centers and have experienced the burnout phenomenon twice. I am directly interested in this subject and I want to help people who cannot detach themselves from the environment that causes them psychological degradation. This phenomenon sets in insidiously, affecting any category of employees, from performers to managers and their bosses. It does not take into account age, social class, gender or IQ.
Four years ago I had my first public intervention on this subject. During the state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout syndrome had medical personnel in the foreground. At the same pace or perhaps even faster, due to different working conditions, it was present in the corporate environment and among entrepreneurs, who tried to survive professionally and financially”.
The doctor believes that “the only specialist who can evaluate, diagnose and intervene in a mental pathology is the psychiatrist”. In addition, prevention is the most cost-effective method to maintain the mental and somatic health of human resources!
“I am honored to coordinate this action. The “Let’s talk about BurNOut” campaign means raising awareness, a representation through visual art, music and medical science, about the emotional suffering that people can experience at work. These effects, because they are apparently invisible, are often ignored.
The campaign aims to implement scientifically developed and interpreted assessment tools. These will be used to identify personality and character typologies vulnerable to burnout. In collaboration with management, a personalized employee integration plan can be developed as part of the onboarding process. Specific scales will also be used to identify conditions that make it difficult to integrate into the workplace and maintain professional performance”, explains Dr. Silion.
The campaign coordinator would like a growing number of people to understand the symptoms that are serious warning signs to consider for requesting a specialist consultation: depressive mood, low attention, difficulty making decisions, decreased professional performance, mental and physical tension, social withdrawal, insomnia, irritability, lack of interest and pleasure in previously enjoyable activities.
"Psychological disorders do not go away on their own and cannot be controlled by will. In the absence of therapeutic intervention, people carry conditions that, instead of being treated, progressively worsen," the doctor concluded.
You can schedule a consultation with Dr. Ioana Silion, on the Digital Clinics platform, here: Consult Dr. Ioana Silion
