Anxiety and Stress at work

jdturk

loopy_lass wrote: »

. Being stressed isnt the persons fault, its an illness you cant see.

I agree with your post except that last bit, every employee has a liability to their own stress levels as well as the employer...it may be an illness but an addiction can be seen as an illness and the addict obviously has a liability or what about the person that catches pneumonia from being out side in the cold with out the correct clothing....again their own liability

Chloepad1

I very much agree with previous posters in that there must come a point where you put your own health first, be it mental health or otherwise. I am about to resign from a job that I have worked for nearly six years, due to the intolerable working conditions, the bullying management and the severely long hours, for which the pay is no more than a pittance. I have tolerated this for long enough and something in me just clicked and said to me that I must now put my own health first, because I am now suffering very much with severe symptoms of stress, frequent nightmares and cold sweats, I am physically nauseous at the thought of even going anywhere near my work place. I am unable to eat, and have insomnia, and then when I do drift off, have sleep disturbances. All of these things can be directly ascribed to a work place I have come to loathe and despise and cannot bear the thought of ever returning there. I am easily upset and have spent many hours crying in terror of that place and my truly satanic boss. I realise the job market is not fantastic but anything has to be better than suffering like this. They have robbed me of nearly six years of my life, and I refuse to allow them to deprive me of any more time. because there is more to living than endless slavery in a work place and a job that you have come to truly hate.