Another danger for your health : Stress
Stress is often described as one of the major diseases of our time, especially at work. Consequence of all the constraints that we face every day, it would cause many diseases.
Work stress is responsible for financial losses equivalent to 3 to 5% of French GDP and 30% of employees suffer from some problems that are allocated. Stress is accused of being the cause of psychological disorders (anxiety, depression, addictions, suicides sometimes) and numerous organic disorders: digestive diseases, cardiovascular diseases, dermatological disorders, asthma, sometimes sudden death.
Stress was initially described as a situation that causes a reaction of flight or fight. The increase in heart rate and breathing are typical reactions of fear (causing leakage) or reaction to danger by fighting. If unable to flee or fight, which is the case in the company in case of conflicts with his superiors or colleagues, the solution is illness, absenteeism or resignation.
Certainly the harsh reactions to events (aggression, anger, bad news, conflict) can switch to the disease that an individual does not know sick, as in the example of a heart attack following a stress. Stress is the trigger, but in this case, coronary artery disease has developed over the years, unbeknownst to the patient, and probably not related to stressful situations.
Stress at work requires constant management of conditions in the company to better control his reactions and avoid conflicts. But this does not mean that everything must be attributed to stress: if you are hypertensive, diabetic, asthmatic or depressed, there may be various causes to your health, which should not always blame the work. Stress is often an excuse too easy and too quick to explain the deterioration of health, then it is always necessary to search for causes some very remote working conditions. Keep in mind the example of the stomach ulcer, which for decades was considered a typical stress disease, but in fact is a bacterial infection.