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Breeding ground for unhealthy stress
In every organization, there are inevitably elements of performance pressure and internal relationship challenges that can lead to varying degrees of stress. This may manifest as speculation, dissatisfaction, rumination, anxiety, tension, nervousness, disappointment, and overwork. Even in highly professional environments, poor leadership and toxic culture—both significant contributors to stress—are not uncommon.
Important to keep in mind, these challenges are part of a package that comes with the many positives. Working closely with others, being part of a team, enjoying a strong company spirit and mission, personal feedback on performance, accessing opportunities for learning, growth, training, and career development including a financial reward with insurance, pension, vacation and a salary that ticks in every month.
Everyone will encounter hardships, setbacks, and some level of unhealthy stress. You regroup, regenerate energy and is fresh after a solid weekend or vacation. Existing recovery mechanisms will in most situations clear that; and you learn from it.
However sometimes the issues accumulates, and you can not break out of the pattern; you may be moving into a more permanent stress load situation where temporary stress symptoms becomes permanent. These may show themselves as sleeplessness, tiredness, irritability, lack of energy, sadness, less creativity, memory lapses, difficulty concentrating and hesitation in decision making.
When this pattern is present, it is recommended that you deal with it before it escalate into a serious problem. The earlier you address it, the less long-term impact it may have. And the quicker you can learn from the experience and continue your professional development.
Recovering from unhealthy work-related stress
In addressing the stress issues, it’s central to focus both on external and internal sources that can feed the stress:
When we encounter unconscious patterns, we may apply elements of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy); an effective approach when addressing unconscious harmful dynamics.
The aim is to bring you back on track as fast as possible. A combination of experience and knowledge of business, organizational psychology and a dynamic understanding of the personality will be applied to clear the way through to recovery.
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