In today’s economic outcry, downsizing, layoff, merger and bankruptcies have cost thousands of workers their jobs. Thousands to maybe millions of people have to drift to unaccustomed duties within their companies and wonder how much longer they will be employed. In addition, the pressures that workers face are new bosses, fewer health and retirement benefits, and the feeling they have to work elongated and harder hours just to maintain their economic status. Employees at every level are experiencing increased pressure and uncertainty. The loss of a job can be very straining and stressful. Placing unemployed workers at risk for physical illness, relationship tensions, anxiety, depression and even suicide. The loss of a job affects every part of life, from the moment you wake up in the morning; to the people you see and what you can manage to do. Until you get back on your feet, STRESS is continuous.

            Even when you are still employed, sometimes your work setting creates a lot of stress. Noisy settings, wanting more privacy, subpar lighting, weak ventilation, pitiful temperature control or inadequate sanitary facilities can be one of the many factors that create an uneasy work environment. Some jobs out there are also dangerous and others can suddenly become so. Jobs like police officers, firefighters, Emergency Medical Technicians, military personnel and disaster teams are even more susceptible to more stress. Being exposed to horrible scenes and exposed to personal danger can cause psychological stress, which can lead to sleep deprivation, guilt, fearfulness and physical complaint. Even regular jobs can become traumatic. Such events can create post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which leads to a whole other subject.

            Stress, stress, stress!!!! It is a highly personalized unavoidable casualty and can deviate widely even in identical situations for different reason. The harshness of job stress depends on the degree of the demands that are being made and the individual’s sense of control or decisions. The effects of job stress are more difficult to ascertain because chronic diseases develop over relatively long periods of time and are influenced by many factors other than stress. Nonetheless, there is some evidence that stress plays a big role.