I guess the insomnia I'm thinking is of a special kind: the kind where one tries to compensate for lack of efficiency due to exhaustion by working ever longer hours, which causes insane levels of cortisol (=sleeplessness) in the body, and ultimately a "burn out" of the very severe and traumatic kind that I have experience with. I'm sure there are many different kinds, and not all may follow this pattern, which could be the reason for the relative low correlation between insomnia and burnout in the study cited (if I read it correctly)
The bidirectional aspect (if burnout also causes insomnia) may be of some interest, but it's not the one I urgently want to convey to people in that may find themselves in this situation. IMO, in short; they should see a physician after one sleepless night maximum, and in the slightly longer term do some serious reevaluation of the work and family balance, or risk physically "blowing a fuse".
It really concerns me that many people on this trajectory don't believe it can happen to them, or that the burnt out condition even exists for real.
The bidirectional aspect (if burnout also causes insomnia) may be of some interest, but it's not the one I urgently want to convey to people in that may find themselves in this situation. IMO, in short; they should see a physician after one sleepless night maximum, and in the slightly longer term do some serious reevaluation of the work and family balance, or risk physically "blowing a fuse".
It really concerns me that many people on this trajectory don't believe it can happen to them, or that the burnt out condition even exists for real.