workaholichere are the following symptoms of workaholism seek professional helpcounselling is often recommended for workaholics we spend more hours in office than at home with family and friends as for effects on social health kothari says workaholics are unable to maintain healthy relationships they have broken interpersonal relationships ineffective communication lack of interest and participation in social recreational activities and productivity will be at its supreme best if the balance between the work and play is sought they are perfectionists and nothing is ever good enough for them they have no free time for themselves family and friends chakravarthy believes that workaholism is an addiction schedule dates with your friends and partner or spouse also lack of interest and growth in other areas say interpersonal relationships makes them ignore their personal life and in turn focus more on work reading this diary can help you figure out what is making you happy and what isnt working hard is great but one needs to be able to turn if off and savour the other parts of your life friends family hobbies and fun they would rather handle everything themselves experts tell lisa antao how to cope with workaholismin todays fastpaced and stressful life we are constantly working harder longer and faster to achieve success in our careers call family members just to say a quick hello or share an idea during the middle of the day they are under the illusion that people will like them more if they appear more competent than they actually are they think sleeping and recreational activities is a waste of time all their conversations steer about work topics they will often steer every conversation back to their work seema hingorrany clinical psychologist and trauma therapist says that workaholics often spend many extra hours at work and often taking work home to complete one shouldnt be so consumed in work that you fail to enjoy the little pleasures of life our desire to earn more money to rise higher in our work organisation to acquire more recognition and appreciation has transformed some of us into workaholics for a true workaholic work becomes a compulsion and possibly even an obsession therefore its hightime that we begin to deal with this problem in order to achieve something and the need to do something worthwhile and result oriented workaholics put all their energies to their work and eventually become a workaholic people slip into this due to fear poor self esteem fear of failure losing a job trying to be perfect work demands frustration stress etc its much more helpful to plan some activities and its recommended that these be compulsory or paid for in advance so that the workaholic will be less tempted to skip out and do work regarding effects on physical health hingorrany says an increased risk of high blood pressure type 2 diabetes chronic pain and a weakened immune system both are interdependent here psychologists will help a workaholic to pinpoint their irrational