Stress is a compulsive disorder in today’s world. It affects one and all. Effective
stress management is the only solution for this problem. But stress related symptoms might also be an indication of other severe body disorders.
Physical Symptoms
Let us analyze some physical
symptoms of stress such as muscular tension, pain in lower back, leg cramps, pain or discomfort in chest area, stomach pains and IBS, skin irritations, fast heart beats, constant sweating of palms, unusual sweating of the body, feeling nervous or tense, insomnia, difficulty in breathing, etc.
Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
A traumatic experience like death of a relative, or a fatal accident, the loss of a good job or natural calamities can produce feelings of nervous anxiety, bouts of anger, depression, sad feelings and lots of crying. You may also have restless sleep, loss of sexual desire and guilt feelings. There are four major types of posttraumatic
stress disorder are as follows:
- Disturbing Flashbacks: A traumatic past will constantly rear it head in nightmares, upsetting memories and drastic physical and emotional reactions to any reminders of the traumatic past.
- Numbness: feeling elusive and lonely, loss of interest in any activities, numbing of emotions.
- Avoiding people: Avoiding a crowded gathering, many places that remind you of the sad incident.
- Insomnia: Difficulty in getting sound and dreamless sleep.
Symptoms of workplace stress
All of us know that stress and related conditions are major causes of low functioning of an employee. It is more or less like a world wide epidemic. Job
stress and its management control are the prime responsibility of the main heads of the company or firm. Some of the
symptoms of stress at workplace include
- Apprehension- Feeling anxious and hassled.
- Indecision-Incapability to take any major decisions.
- Irritation-Feeling unduly irritated or at the edge feeling.
- Frequent complains to the superior about one thing or the other.
- Memory loss-Forgetting important files or documents, misplacing primary files.
- Low Esteem-Always feeling low and not confident of orating speeches or raising his/her voice in boardroom meetings.
- Insomnia-taking office worries to the home front and forgoing sleep due to work place tensions.
- Exhaustion-Feeling excessively tired or exhausted even without any physical activity.
Such symptoms cost the companies to shell out millions of dollars each financial year in health and mental care of the employees. The total costs, stress-related accidents, loss of quality control, personal loss and various other factors are results of a stress-prone workplace atmosphere. Many employees take extreme step of suicide or physically hurting other colleagues owning to work tensions. These
stress problems are mainly seen in lower and middle executive levels. Higher-class executives are more or less more aware of effective stress management and control.
Job stress is the combination of a worker and his conditional working atmosphere. There are different ways to prevent workplace
stress. But many a times these problems vary from individual to individual, what may be a big problem to one person may not be so for the other.
