At work, you feel tired, irritable, you lose your concentration or your enthusiasm, you multiply the little health problems. Careful, you may be suffering from stress.
According to a CSA survey (July 2000), “three out of four employees say they are concerned” by stress, particularly due to an overload of work, difficult to meet deadlines, demands more and strongest customers or a rate too fast.
Living Under Pressure
The stress is primarily a normal reaction to adapt to a situation. In a society that requires increasing productivity, some people will need emergency situations of conflict or complexity to excel and work effectively. Others, however, will react more violently to what they perceive as an attack. If the stress is interrupted, the balance due. But if it becomes chronic, it is dangerous because it pumps a lot of energy constantly asking the body to adapt. It changes the nervous and hormonal balance and decrease the capacity of concentration and productivity. Not to mention the psychological effects of varying severity, and cardiovascular problems like hypertension, it can generate.
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