=== Common and easy to escape ===

1. The Compulsion to Prove Oneself: demonstrating worth obsessively; tends to hit the best employees, those with enthusiasm who accept responsibility readily.
2. Working Harder: an inability to switch off.

== Recovery alone becomes difficult ===

3) Neglecting Needs: erratic sleeping, eating disrupted, lack of social interaction.

4) Displacement of Conflicts: problems are dismissed; we may feel threatened, panicky, and jittery.

=== Easy recovery with the help of another ===

5) Revision of Values: Values are skewed, friends and family dismissed, hobbies seen as irrelevant. Work is the only focus.

6) Denial of Emerging Problems: intolerance; perceiving collaborators as stupid, lazy, demanding, or undisciplined; social contacts harder; cynicism, aggression; problems are viewed as caused by time pressure and work, not because of life changes.

=== Recovery with the help of another becomes hard ===

7) Withdrawal: social life small or nonexistent, need to feel relief from stress, alcohol/drugs.

8) Odd Behavioral Changes: changes in behavior obvious; friends and family concerned.

=== Easy medical intervention still possible ===

9) Depersonalization: seeing neither self nor others as valuable, and no longer perceive own needs.

10) Inner Emptiness: feeling empty inside and turning to activities such as overeating, sex, alcohol, or drugs to overcome this.

=== Serious medical help needed to recover ==

11) Depression: feeling lost and unsure, exhausted, future feels bleak and dark.

12) Burnout Syndrome: can include total mental and physical collapse

=== Recovery no longer possible ===

13) Death

Please be kinder to yourself and get the help you need before it is too late.

IT is a fun career if you are into computers but it could also be ruthless, easily get burned out. Be mindful, and don’t be trapped in the rabbit hole. Get a hobby that is not computer related and enjoy your life, not just your work but your own life.