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Recently, according to the increase in physical and psychological fatigue due to overwork and/or emotional labor, burnout has been received broad attention and widely infiltrated the popular culture. ...Despite an extended concept of burnout, however, the distinction between burnout and depression remains inconclusive. Furthermore, in spite of a rapid increase in research dedicated physical and biological aspects in addition to symptomatic and psychosocial ones of burnout, a clear difference between burnout and depression remains uncertain as well. Burnout has mainly been investigated in the research filed of psychology, but not medicine. So far, as a reason for that, no binding medical diagnostic criteria exist for identifying cases of burnout. In contrast, major depressive disorder is classified mental disorder. The definition of the burnout syndrome is insufficient. Substantial studies including medical ones are needed in order to answer the question if burnout and depression represent different pathologies with overlapping symptoms or if they describe aspects of the same disorder.show more
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