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Job Stress, Health, And Unexpected Consequences: How Stress-Caused Health Problems Can Kill Your Career
In Japan they have a word for what happens when you work too much, so much until you fall over dead: Karoshi, which means death by overwork. But even in Japan, most people don't usually die from working too much - they just get sick and suffer. And suffering, year after year, can be a prescription for career disaster...
Job stress results when we work too much or under bad circumstances, and it's not news to anyone that such stress can make us sick. But there's a wrinkle that flies under the radar in the stress and health discussion: Not only can an excessively stressful career make us sick, but once we get sick, our lower energy levels affect the quality and quantity of the work we can do, and sooner or later, our impaired performance can in turn ruin our careers.
Unfortunately, excess stress on a daily basis is something all too familiar to lots of people. And for all too many, it has already resulted in an assortment of health problems, ranging from the merely annoying, embarrassing, and slightly painful, such as cold sores, acne, neck pain, headaches, and hair loss, all the way to obesity, heart attacks, and even death.
Sometimes things can get so bad, that karoshi may seem like a merciful way out. But let's focus on the kinds of health consequences that result from stress that doesn't quite kill you and on the impact they can have on your career in turn. If the stress is ongoing, and it usually is, you may well end up suffering for years, alive but not so well.
We know that when the body experiences stress, it releases adrenalin and cortisol as part of our primitive fight-or-flight response. These important hormones help increase the oxygen level in the blood and boost the sugar in the blood - preparing us to either flee or fight.
That reaction may have been useful in an era where fighting or fleeing would have been considered reasonable options. But if your boss is yelling at you, neither bonking him on the kisser nor running away screaming qualifies as appropriate behavior. Instead, there you are, a sitting duck, flooded with stress hormones that have no place to go and serve no purpose except wreak havoc on your well-being.
What havoc? For example, the immune system is suppressed or damaged, which compromises your body's ability to resist infection. So you're the first to catch the office cold and the last to recover from it. And then there are a number of chronic health conditions are either caused or made worse by stress, including high blood pressure, high blood sugar, migraine headaches, and heart disease. Some research suggests that stress can even cause cancer - or push the body over that critical hurdle where our immune system is just no longer strong enough to fight it off.
There are also slightly less obvious conditions, less obvious at least to the outside observer: depression, fibromyalgia, insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and adrenal burnout.
They all have in common that they'll sap your energy and make it very difficult to get much work done. Come performance review, you'll have some explaining to do. And if anything, that'll make your stress-levels even worse.
Can you see where this is heading? Stress may hurt your body, but it will also hurt your career if you don't manage to get on top of it. Ratcheting down your stress levels has got to be a top priority, because it may not only cost you your health but your job as well. And then, what will you do for health insurance?
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how do you cope with job stress? i am in counseling right now for depression and i also just have lots of mood swings and racing thoughts. (i'm not looking for a diagnosis...just letting you know where things stand)
my boss fired my friend today, for no real reason except she said it was too hard to schedule him anymore. i think this is unreasonable and it makes me mad.
how do i go into work tomorrow and stay calm? stuff like this is very hard for me, it makes my relationships suffer. it's a family business and i don't want to speak to anyone who runs it right now. but they will ask me why i'm not talking and i don't want to get real mad, because i could get fired.
jacko... my web browser won't open that page... do you have a different link i could try?
Beyond doing relaxation techniques, you should take some time to evaluate the future. Is this a job you can see yourself in for the next 20 years (my guess is 'no'). If not, why aren't you elsewhere. My guess (and I could be wrong) is that you are either unsure of what you want to do or you don't feel like you have the qualifications to do whatever it is that you want to do.
Find something outside of work that you can go to in your mind when your job is driving you crazy. It could be a hobby, but the most effective thing is if you are working toward your future outside of work... taking a class, learning a skill (even if it is a hobby - like woodworking or home remodelling - like the classes that they do at home depot). If you know you won't be there forever, it won't seem so unbearable. If you know that you are qualified enough that finding a new job will be a snap, you won't have any problem being assertive (being aggressive, sarcastic, or mean will never get you ahead, so you might want to start with an Interpersonal Communications course at your local community college, tech school, or university - even if you 'klep' it - meaning take it for no grade).
You might also find that going to church on the weekend helps - not only socially, but to be around people who know that there is something more important than the day to day garbage that we all have to deal with (hmmm. maybe I should take my own advice).
Finally, having outside interests and skills will definitely help on that lovely day when you decide that you just can't take it anymore and turn in your two weeks notice. Maybe you'll even be doing it to run your own business. Wouldn't that be awesome!
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