"If you have answer yes to at least 3-4 of these questions, you are really under the condition termed as workaholism."
1. Do you consider your work as the most important part of your life and get more excited with work-related events instead of happenings related to your family?
2. Do you find it easy to invigorate through your work and at times unable to?
3. Do you find it difficult to resist asking and doing things related to work even if you are about to sleep, on a vacation or even on weekends and holidays?
4. Do you consider your work as the most exciting topic to talk about?
5. Do you exceed the normal 40 working hours that you have to spend each week?
6. Are you unceasingly interested in making money about anything even if it should only be activities for pleasure? As if you would get sick if you cannot make money out of anything and everything?
7. Are you always assuming responsibility for everything as if you are the only person that can accomplish all activities?
8. Have you recently observed that your family and friends are not expecting you to come on time during gatherings and even on normal days?
9. Do you tend to take the work of others even if you have your own thinking that they would not be able to accomplish the work on time without your help?
10. Do you often feel that you need to rush in completing task assuming that it won't be meeting its deadline even if there is no basis that it won't?
11. Do you often convince yourself that your actions are fine because you are passionate with what you are doing?
12. Do you often get irritated with your team mates at work that have other priorities besides work?
13. Do you often feel that you have to keep on doing your work unceasingly because you will be fired or you won't please the boss if you don't?
14. Do you often use the future as an excuse? That you are only doing this in preparation for the future when in fact everything is on the right track?
15. Do you often consider competing with somebody else even if there is no competition at all?
16. Do you often feel annoyed when someone asks you to take a break and relax?
17. Have you recently observed that you are going through rough times with your family and have encountered some rifts with your relationship partner?
18. Do you think of your work every time even when you are just doing normal activities not related to work like driving or even when you are about to go to sleep?
19. Do you find yourself working even when you should concentrate on other things like eating?
20. Do you often use the term money in the thought that it will be the only weapon that you will need to survive and go on with life? As if it is the only solution for every problem in life?
