{"id":24355,"date":"2017-07-20T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/?p=24355"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:46:14","slug":"work-related-stress-how-to-fight-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/work-related-stress-how-to-fight-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-related stress: how to fight it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stress is one of the greatest evils of the 21st century. In developed countries, it is calculated that over seventy percent of the population suffers from stress, to a lesser or greater extent, and stress is affecting more and more younger people, even children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fiendish pace of life demanded of us by jobs, cities and daily responsibilities is the principal source of our supposed state of well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we had to define stress, we could say that it’s a state of mental exhaustion caused by a demand for higher than usual performance, thus causing physical and mental diseases. There’s also a biological definition that describes a conglomeration of alterations in the body resulting from certain types of repetitive stimuli, for example fear and anxiety. From the latter definition, we can deduce that we are subjected to these states of panic and nervousness and over time more or less serious disorders we may begin to develop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, job performance is an extremely pressing demand, with nearly impossible-to-meet deadlines. For this reason, <\/span>work-related stress<\/b> is one of the main causes for medical leave in our country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Symptoms of stress<\/span><\/p>\n

Stress may cause various kinds psychological as well as physical symptoms. Some of these are:<\/span><\/p>\n