Work Stress

Work can be meaningful and rewarding for some individuals, but it can become stressful and overwhelming for others. However, if workplace stress turns into prolonged worry or anxiety, your overall health and personal relationships can suffer.

Work stress has specific triggers, such as job insecurity, being unfairly treated, or experiencing excess burdens on your workload. These triggers can cause one or more stress responses in your body, such as increased blood pressure and cortisol spikes. Also, with work stress, you might reduce how often you exercise or not eat as healthy as you normally would.

Common signs of workplace stress include:

• Sleep problems

• Irritability or argumentativeness’

• Frustration

• Fatigue

• Being in a bad mood or overly negative

• Feeling unmotivated

• Feeling unappreciated or burnt out

• Taking excessive time off work

• Regular sick leave

 

Excessive work stress and burnout can gradually lead to more severe health problems. This condition comes with physical and emotional fatigue as well as progressively negative feelings toward life, yourself, and others.

Depression often results from burnout, both of which can increase your risk of hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, and heart attack.

At Atan Therapy we will help you manage you stress more effectively by using approaches to help regain your balance. These include helping you identify the causes of your stress, managing underlying emotions and value struggles, developing better assertiveness and looking at your overall relaxation strategies.