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Time-consuming, exciting, devouring: when work takes up too much space

2023-05-31T10:32:01.115Z

Highlights: At work, passion is a real driving force. But, by dint of taking our profession too much to heart, it takes all the place, and gradually nibbles away at the other parts of our lives. "We choose to invest our time, energy and efforts, because we enjoy it," says psychologist Anaïs Roux. Working with passion also means devoting less time and energy to one's personal life, sacrificing the social and family sphere, and sometimes even one's mental health.


TESTIMONIALS - At work, passion is a real driving force. But, by dint of taking our profession too much to heart, it takes all the place, and gradually nibbles away at the other parts of our lives.


"For me, it was more than a job: an identity." This is what Marion remembers from her eighteen years of working hard at the hospital as a nurse. Others would have seen it as a time-consuming, devouring and thankless job. Not her. Passionate, she counts neither her hours nor her commitment. This is the danger of the professions that inhabit us and drive us: "We choose to invest our time, energy and efforts, because we enjoy it," says Anaïs Roux, psychologist in charge of the therapy department of Teale, a mobile application for mental health in companies. The problem is that we tend to romanticize this relationship and forget the more toxic side," she warns from the outset. Working with passion also means devoting less time and energy to one's personal life, sacrificing the social and family sphere, and sometimes even one's mental health. Marion paid the price. In 2022, this forty-year-old woman collapses, victim...

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