Stress and time pressure mothers increasingly exhausted

Many mothers are reaching their limits

06/17/2014

Exhaustion states, sleep disorders, stress, impairments of physical health - the assumption of family responsibility is a health risk for many mothers in Germany, reports the Müttergenesungswerk at its annual press conference in Berlin. Cause of the overload of many mothers are „social trends in the development of family structures.“

The Board of Trustees of the Müttergeneswerk and Bundestag member Dagmar Ziegler stressed that „the burden of mothers socially conditioned and the disease no individual failure“ be. Due to the change in family structures, mothers are exposed to enormous demands. In particular, the uncertainties in the life course and the unequal division of labor in family work are mentioned here. „The expectation of equal rights in roles and work sharing and the real traditional role expectations are a daily contradiction that can become a health risk“, reports the maternal healing work.

The managing director of the mothers' welfare organization, Anne Schilling, explained that „constant time pressure, the professional requirement and lack of recognition the TOP 3 of the load factors“ form. Be in the last ten years „the number of mothers with fatigue syndrome to burn out, with sleep disorders, anxiety, headaches or similar illnesses increased by 37 percentage points.“ Often, the mothers would try to meet the high expectations and only then take professional help, „when they can not work anymore.“

According to data from the Müttergenesungswerk in 2013, some 49,000 mothers with 71,000 children took advantage of the maternal or mother-child treatment measures. The holistic and maternal-specific concept of the curative measures of the Müttergenerationwerk also includes the individual development of strategies suitable for everyday use to change pathogenic factors. (Fp)