工作狂会患上"休闲病"

　　The water's blue, the waves are lapping. Geez, it's hot. Do I have enough sunscreen on? Why did I wear this bathing suit? How long have we been here? I wonder what's happening at the office. Have they finished that project? Where is that cellphone? Wait, don't tell me there's no service!

　　海水碧蓝，波涛拍岸。唉，天气真热。我抹的防晒霜足够多了吗？为什么我要穿这件泳衣？我们到这儿多长时间了？不知道公司有没有发生什么事。他们完成那个项目了吗？我的手机放哪儿了？等等，别告诉我这里没信号！

　　Can't slow down? Even on vacation? You've got plenty of company。

　　无法放慢节奏？即使在休假的时候？有很多人和你一样。

　　Attempting to relax even makes some people sick. Some 3% of the population suffers from 'leisure sickness' when they go on vacation. Symptoms include fatigue, muscle pain, nausea and flu-like symptoms, according to a 2002 study in the Netherlands. And a phenomenon of 'weekend headaches' accounts for roughly one-third of all migraines and one-sixth of tension headaches。

　　尝试去放松紧张的心情甚至还让一些人得了病。根据荷兰2002年的一项研究，大约3%的人在休假的时候会患上“休闲病”，症状包括浑身乏力、肌肉疼痛、恶心呕吐以及一些类似感冒的症状。约有三分之一的偏头痛以及六分之一的紧张性头痛与“周末头痛症”现象有关。

　　'For a lot of workaholics, work alleviates anxiety, and when you are not working, the anxiety bubbles up,' says Dr. Robinson, who says that he used to pretend to rest -- and secretly work instead -- while his family went to the beach. 'It calmed me down, like a drink calms an alcoholic,' he says. He hit bottom when his partner left him in 1983 and he sought help in therapy and Workaholics Anonymous。

　　“对很多工作狂而言，工作可以缓解他们的焦虑，而当你不工作的时候，焦虑的情绪就会泛滥开来，”罗宾逊说。他表示，在和家人去海边玩的时候，他过去经常假装休息──但实际上却悄悄在干活儿。“工作让我平静下来，就像是酒精可以让酒鬼平静下来一样。”他说。1983年，当他的另一伴弃他而去的时候，他的心情跌到了低谷，他通过治疗并加入工作狂互助会(Workaholics Anonymous)来寻求帮助。

　　hat is the ideal vacation for someone who needs to relax but has trouble doing so?

　　对于需要放松但却无法做到的人来说，什么样的假期才是理想假期呢？

　　-- Try something new. Learning something in a new place can be more relaxing and refreshing than trying to do nothing. While it's good to get outside your comfort zone, it's not necessary to explode out of it. 'I don't want to go bungee jumping,' says Matthew Edlund, a sleep expert in Sarasota, Fla., and author of 'The Power of Rest' who says he'd much prefer walking through Berlin or Beijing. 'You decide what your level of adventurousness is and do it.'

　　─尝试新事物。在一个新的地方学习新东西比整天无所事事更能让人身心放松、耳目一新。虽然走出你熟悉的圈子是好的，但没有必要走得太远。“我不想去玩蹦极跳，”佛罗里达州萨拉索塔市(Sarasota)的睡眠专家马修 埃德伦德(Matthew Edlund)表示。埃德伦德是《休闲的力量》(The Power of Rest)一书的作者，他说他很想在柏林或者北京走街串巷。“你自己决定冒险的等级，然后就开始行动吧。”

　　-- Have a plan, but be flexible. Completely winging it somewhere can be stressful, so have a rough idea of what you're going to do, but be willing to change it. 'If you find that you're on a beach and you're bored out of your mind, get up and do something else,' says Dr. Edlund。

　　─制定计划，但是要灵活机动。严格地执行计划会让人感到压力，所以你要对想做的事情大致有个想法，但是愿意随时调整你的计划。“如果你觉得在海滩上烦闷无趣，那么就起身做点儿别的什么事，”埃德伦德说。

　　-- Get physical. Besides releasing endorphins, exercise also burns off excess adrenaline and cortisol. The 'flight' can be on the treadmill, after all. If you haven't been exercising, a vacation can be a good time to start. Even a walk on the beach can be invigorating for a chaise potato. At the other extreme, some people relax by doing marathons or triathlons. But overdoing it be stressful as well。

　　─做运动。除了释放恩多芬，运动还可以燃烧掉多余的肾上腺素和皮质醇。毕竟，在跑步机上运动也是一种“逃跑”。如果你没有运动的习惯，那么假期可以是一个很好的开始。即使只是在沙滩上散散步也可以让“沙发土豆”们精神焕发。也有人走到了另一个极端，他们通过马拉松和三项全能运动来放松。但是，过量运动同样也会造成精神压力。