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Rubiella Toppenberg worked as a preventive worker at FADA: Burnout can lead to a state in which the person begins to feel unwell

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The Anti-Drug Foundation Aruba (FADA) after the pandemic treated many cases of Burnout. Burnout is beneath the workers and often what has come out, is that we as human beings are not in the habit of saying no, this is not something that Arabs like to say seeing that we as Arabs are people who like to help.

According to Rubiella Toppenberg’s preventive work at FADA, our community is made up of such people. This means that at the moment we do not know how to say that we have reached the limit of taking so much work. This is where the person can get into a state of burnout and become exhausted from the work.

Burnout can lead to a state where the person begins to feel unwell and unknowingly experiences burnout where they reach a stage where if they don’t take a break or learn to say no or don’t take a lot of work they can work on their mental health as well.

In the case of burnout there are many types of problems and it varies by age. Most mental health disorders can basically touch the door at any age, but at the same time it should be remembered that there are cases of mental health that are hereditary where the person is born with it and for one reason or another the person will use a substance and wake up with another type of mental health disorder from sleep.

So the body and the mind will begin to wonder where all these reactions that the body gives are coming from, not knowing that in the family tree there is someone in the family who has suffered from it and that a family member has inherited it.

The reality is that mental health issues are big, so it’s important for every child, teenager, adult and older adult to feel that something is wrong and that the body needs to take immediate action because the longer you wait the bigger the problem becomes.

According to Rubiella Toppenberg the truth is that there is still a culture of taboo and fear in our community, this is very big even under the community, stigma is a very present situation. According to FADA’s Rubiella Toppenberg, in recent weeks she has spoken at schools where she has seen this presentation and corrected many children.

The young person is not aware of the harm he is doing, considering that at the moment the young person is making fun of the topic of depression in school and where children make fun and laugh about the topic. However, at the same time, you can notice and see the reaction of the other children in the classroom that maybe in the class itself there are one or two children who suffer from depression in the classroom and do not come forward because of the behavior of young people who joke about such a sensitive topic as depression.

As a social worker, they see the person who has it and they see the topic as affecting the child. However, education starts at home and it’s good that we can teach all children at a very young age already between 3 and 4 years old to start talking to a child already and explain to them that depression can knock on the door of anyone even you.

When someone else is researching the topic of depression, the person with depression won’t seek help for fear of being ignored, and if they don’t seek help, they will live with depression for the rest of their lives, and when the person ends their life, the whole community is in shock.

However, we ourselves are part of the problem because we are not paying attention and commenting without knowing that the person next to us is being affected. According to Rubiella Toppenberg, stigma is a big thing and it’s the biggest cause of why people don’t seek help, but the more we talk about mental health openly, the more people who need it feel the push and the motivation to seek help.

However, the reality is that the world is already in an age where we no longer have to be ashamed and where mental health issues can come knocking on the door of all of us.

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