In the last six months, office workers who consulted psychologists began to complain most often of a lack of stress resistance and attacks of anxiety. Olesya Tolstukhina, a psychologist at the Doctor Nearby telemedicine company, told socialbites.ca about this.
“The first thing that suffers under stress is the level of work engagement and thus labor productivity. A “snowball” grows, the employee not only fails to do his job, but also his guilt grows, it becomes difficult to talk with colleagues, and especially with the manager, ”said the psychologist.
According to Olesya Tolstukhina, stress at work leads to conflicts with family members, and the resulting “snowball” can lead to burnout.
“Our job is first and foremost to understand a person, to give him space to speak up and feel sorry for himself, because despite all his past successes he is still a living person and don’t get tired, don’t experience negative emotions, that’s normal,” he said.
The psychologist added that people who come with anxiety complaints are in the opposite situation.
“Patients come because everything seems fine at work and in the family, but something is disturbing, a person does not sleep well, suddenly feels bouts of anxiety and does not understand what to do with it,” said Olesya. Tolstukhina.
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