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Patient can no longer tell the difference between a weekend and a Tuesday. Cries at the Instacart delivery driver because he smiled. Has not made a decision larger than 'chicken or beef' in eleven weeks. Said 'I love my job' at a work event and then sat in a parked car for 90 minutes.
Permanent without structural intervention. 'A holiday' is not the intervention.
No cure. A sabbatical delays the symptoms by approximately two weeks.
Patients with Catastrophic Burnout Phase 4 typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Catastrophic Burnout Phase 4 — a catastrophic condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Defatigatio professionalis terminalis. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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