Workaholism

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jor challenge. Relationships require a certain amount of time and attention to keep them alive and to keep us emotionally nourished. It is not recognized as a psychological disorder but is commonly understood as a psychological issue. Someone is struggling with workaholism when they have a focused relationship with work that excludes time for themselves, friends and relationships, and is having a relationship with work that contends with other important relationships.

In our modern day consumer society, we have become immersed in a business values world. Commerce makes the world function. This is especially true because now there is more of a focus on work and pay than ever before. Women are working and diversity is valued, so the percentage of workers around the world has increased. The effects of a consumer society are obvious and the lifestyles much of the world maintains are a direct result, but we have to work hard to achieve these lifestyles. A change has taken place from working for our basic needs, to working to maintain our desire for unessential material goods. Affluenza is a term coined to recognise the reckless spending that has grabbed hold of developed countries, especially the United States. We are consuming rapidly through our resources and have a need to continuously spend our money. We base our idea of what is wealthy or the norm on what we see from those around us. So, whole societies have been affected, which is a change from history where it was just the wealthy that spent recklessly. The result of this consumer society is a constant need for more money, and therefore, more work or higher incomes are necessary, which can lead to over-work.

According to the bible, our purpose in life is procreation. Nowadays it seems our purpose is to work. We have little time available to us for anything else really. Our lives begin with education, so that we can work. We spend most of our life working, and then we retire (wh...