Anxiety At Work

Do you have crippling anxiety at work? Do you wonder what’s causing it and steps to stop it? I’ll list those further in the post.

Do you ever wonder how you came to this point in your life? I mean, how there was “normal” anxiety and now it’s taken over your life-including work. How, you just wish it would be done and over with! Hence, anxiety is present in everything I do or even think. Furthermore, I make my decision’s off of how much anxiety it is going to cause me. That’s pretty pathetic! Notwithstanding, I never in a million years imagined my life would end up like this. But, I am working on changing that hoping I’m back in control of my life. Piece by agonizing piece.

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” ―Vernon Sanders Law

Anxiety At Work Causes

Consequently, those who perceive stressors at work to be beyond their control are more likely to become overwhelmed by them, making them more vulnerable to anxiety.

In any case, this does not mean that all work stress and anxiety are internally generated. In fact, extensive research has helped to identify specific workplace stressors that are more likely to negatively impact employees.

Causes of workplace anxiety might include:

To begin with, interpersonal issues or conflicts with colleagues or supervisors
Demands, workload, and deadlines for projects and assignments
Unclear, ambiguous, or inconsistent expectations and duties
Feeling ineffective or unsure of how to complete work duties and tasks
What’s more, excessive, unreasonable or unrealistic expectations placed on workers
Having to participate, present or speak in meetings
Lack of supervisory support or guidance from supervisors
Lack of collaboration among colleagues or a competitive culture
Also, hostility among colleagues, harassment, retaliation or unfair treatment
Some aspect of the work or workplace conflicting with personal beliefs and values
Inability to make decisions or have autonomy or control in one’s job
Lastly, Inflexibility, being micromanaged or a lack of work/life balance

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill

Work Anxiety Symptoms

Consequently, we all feel stress and anxiety in our daily lives, so it is totally normal to feel anxious about your job from time to time. Given that our jobs play a significant part in our lives, it’s normal to feel anxious when workplace pressures are especially high or if you’re starting a new job.

Therefore, if you have workplace anxiety, you might experience symptoms such as:

A persistent sense of worry, apprehension, dread or hopelessness
Feeling trapped and unable to find a ‘way out’
Feeling fearful, paranoid and tense
Anger and impatience
Difficulty concentrating
Panic attacks
Muscle tension
Lastly, Fatigue

What’s more, these symptoms might result in an inability for you to do your job, as you’re unable to concentrate or feel motivated to do the tasks that you’ve been given. Under those circumstances, over time, it might lead to your performance dropping, a breakdown in your working relationships or you spending more time on sick leave.

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

Coping With Anxiety at Work

To put it another way, anxiety is uncontrollable and often debilitating — handling it on the job is not always easy, but getting it under control is necessary for career and personal progress. What;s more, if you are having trouble dealing with anxiety and stress levels at work, here are 8 positive steps you can take in coping with the anxiety.

 Work Anxiety Therapy

Without doubt, working through a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program is a common treatment that is used to help people with anxiety disorders. During these sessions, you work with a therapist to understand the causes and triggers of your anxiety. With the result that, you learn and practice coping techniques to help you better manage triggers and symptoms going forward.

When you have the right coping skills and strategies in place to deal with anxiety, you are likely to feel more comfortable and confident about going to work once again. With this in mind, medication may also be prescribed alongside a therapy program, to help, here are 8 healthy ways of coping with the management of your anxiety disorder.

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis

Anxiety Keeping Me From Working

Basically, both anxiety and depression can be debilitating. Therefore, this means that these mental health issues can produce such intense symptoms that the person is not able to function. As a result, this is true no matter how badly they may want to get up and go to work. They simply can’t work due to anxiety and depression.

Altogether, some of the ways that anxiety and depression cause impairment include:

Both disorders can lead to mental burnout.
Both disorders can cause brain fog.
Social anxiety disrupts careers.
Depression saps energy.

As a matter of fact, if you find you cannot work due to mental illness, you may be able to obtain Social Security Disability Insurance benefits. At this point, you must provide proof of the mental health disorder by first receiving an official diagnosis of mental illness. Also, SSDI does not pay benefits until after the fifth month of disability.

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville

Conclusion

So, if your having way too much anxiety about going to work, it’s time to seek help. Some people just don’t understand the anxiety that you feel with work (or anything, for that matter). I reiterate from my previous post, if you’ve never felt constant, intense anxiety before, you won’t understand. Generally, most people think you should just suck-it-up and get over it! Sorry, but it doesn’t work like that. Be that as it may, you may need lots of therapy and maybe even medication. I’m currently taking Hydroxyzine for my anxiety and it’s working pretty good with minimal side effects.

Well, I’m at the end of the post, so I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Keep fighting anxiety. Until next time…