CONTEXT:

• Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) in its World Health Assembly held in Geneva, had for the first time recognized ‘burn out’ as a medical condition in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which was extensively used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.
• WHO in its catalogue of diseases and injuries defined burn-out as a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.
• The updated list of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) dubbed as ICD-11 which was drafted last year after the recommendations from health experts around the world.
• The ICD-I which will take effect in January 2022, contains several other additions, including classification of “compulsive sexual behaviour as a mental disorder.
• WHO had also the first time recognised video gaming as an addiction, listing it alongside gambling and drugs like cocaine