Mental Health & Stress Management at Workplace

What Is Mental Illness?

Mental disorders include symptoms affecting a person's thinking, mood, behavior or perceptions. This results in an inability to cope with daily chores, work, and relationships. The relationship between stress and mental health is complex. But, episodes of stress can worsen your mental health status.

Some of the most common types of mental health issues are -

• Dementia,
• Schizophrenia,
• Anxiety,
• Depression,
• Bipolar disorder,
• Eating disorder, etc.

Mental disorders can be caused by genetic factors, environmental stresses, biochemical imbalances, or a combination of these. The symptoms of these problems include mood changes, personality differences, and changes in personal habits and/or social withdrawal. This can adversely affect your work and productivity at the workplace.

With proper treatment and care, you can cope or recover from emotional or mental illness.

Everyone who holds a job has experienced work stress at some point. Short-term commitments like meeting a deadline or fulfilling a challenging task. But when work stress becomes chronic, it can be harmful to your body and mind. You cannot always a situation that gives you tension in the workplace. However, you can do the following to handle work pressure:

How To Manage Stress At The Workplace?

 

Pen Down Your Stressors -

Track down all the factors and situations that create stress and how you react to them. Note down how you respond. Did you get angry? Did you walk away? Did you reach out for support? Anything and everything should go in your diary.

 

 

Develop Healthy Responses -

Fight stress with healthy options like yoga at workplace, meditation, exercise. Refrain from falling into habitual drinking and smoking due to stress. Get enough sleep and pursue your hobbies.

Reach Out for Support -

Sharing your stress can be a reliever in most difficult situations. Lean on your family members, friends, and coworkers to buffer you from the negative effects of work stress and anxiety.

Prioritize and Organize Your Work -

When work starts overwhelming you, it's time to be smart and organized. Mental health in the workplace can be maintained with appropriate task and time management skills like balancing schedule, taking regular breaks, not making over-commitments, etc.

Managers should ensure employees mental health status. Stress can reduce productivity hence, refreshments and stress-buster games are a must every once in a while. Employers should arrange for employee health checkup for their staff to keep a tab on their mental health.

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