Signs of work stress
Common indicators
- Changes in moods in colleagues and oneself. Emotional ups and downs, things affect more intensely.
- The overall balance of the day is always negative
- Feelings of inefficiency and lack of self-fulfillment
- Lack of concentration / ability to focus
- Apathy: coming home and not feeling like doing anything; things you used to enjoy, now you put aside and don’t find entertaining
- Worry: feeling that you are constantly forgetting things, going over facts over and over again, recurring feeling that something is wrong and you may be fired.
- Isolation: not wanting to go to the office, avoiding group moments…
- Sadness and crying
- Disturbances in social and family life
- Bad rest, nightmares, headaches, muscle pain, lack of energy, cramps…
- Gastrointestinal pain, tachycardia, sexual problems.
- Dermatological, musculoskeletal and digestive disorders.
- Immunological problems (increased susceptibility to disease).
- Alterations of the endocrine system