ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND WORKPLACE STRESS
Anxiety is a normal response to stressful situations, whether you’re living through them or worried about something in the future. The increase in adrenaline associated with stress can help you work towards your goals: the downside is insomnia, a short temper and a reduction in your effectiveness. Panic attacks are the extreme end of anxiety - terrifyingly physical events that can restrict your life - and intrusive thoughts that can cause shock and shame.
Depression is a feeling of disconnection and misery, tiredness and disinterest that lasts more than a couple of weeks. People with depression have lost the ability to experience pleasure let alone joy and life becomes flat and hopeless.
Anxiety and depression often go hand in hand and have increased exponentially. Although some people may have a natural disposition towards anxiety and depression these are also perfectly normal responses to the ways in which we live. If you’re working a 45 hour week on top of a couple of hours commuting every day; if you’re unemployed, told that you’re a scrounger and have no idea how to fill your time; if you’re in a relationship or job that isn’t fulfilling or where you're bullied; if your life is about to change – a move, a marriage, a new baby, illness - or if you just can’t stand to continue living in a particular way but feel obliged to, then anxiety and depression make sense.
It’s become fashionable to offer 10 handy tips to overcome everything. The huge majority of clients who’ve wanted a quick fix have also found great value in some introspection to discover some foundations for their feelings as well as finding long term, individual answers to their problems.
I’m particularly interested in working with people from the swiftly changing corporate world where values are altering overnight and uncertainty is taking a toll. Growing numbers of clients from this background have found 50 minutes a week reflection very helpful.
Depression is a feeling of disconnection and misery, tiredness and disinterest that lasts more than a couple of weeks. People with depression have lost the ability to experience pleasure let alone joy and life becomes flat and hopeless.
Anxiety and depression often go hand in hand and have increased exponentially. Although some people may have a natural disposition towards anxiety and depression these are also perfectly normal responses to the ways in which we live. If you’re working a 45 hour week on top of a couple of hours commuting every day; if you’re unemployed, told that you’re a scrounger and have no idea how to fill your time; if you’re in a relationship or job that isn’t fulfilling or where you're bullied; if your life is about to change – a move, a marriage, a new baby, illness - or if you just can’t stand to continue living in a particular way but feel obliged to, then anxiety and depression make sense.
It’s become fashionable to offer 10 handy tips to overcome everything. The huge majority of clients who’ve wanted a quick fix have also found great value in some introspection to discover some foundations for their feelings as well as finding long term, individual answers to their problems.
I’m particularly interested in working with people from the swiftly changing corporate world where values are altering overnight and uncertainty is taking a toll. Growing numbers of clients from this background have found 50 minutes a week reflection very helpful.
