Some Stress Causes

Environmental stresses
· Crowding and invasion of personal space
· Insufficient working and living space
· Noise
· Dirty or untidy conditions
· Pollution
· A badly organised or run down environment
Chemical and nutritional stresses
· Caffeine:
· Bursts of sugar from sweets or chocolate:
· Too much salt
· An unbalanced or unhealthy diet.
· If you are obese, this causes physical stress on your internal organs and emotional stress as your view of yourself declines.
Lifestyle and job stress
· physically unfit
· too much or too little work
· having to perform beyond your perceived abilities
· having to overcome unnecessary obstacles
· time pressures and deadlines
· keeping up with new developments
· changes in procedures and policies
· lack of relevant information, support and advice
· lack of clear objectives
· unclear expectations of your role from your boss or colleagues
· responsibility for people, budgets or equipment
· career development stress:
o under-promotion, frustration and boredom with current role
o over-promotion beyond abilities
o lack of a clear plan for career development
o lack of opportunity
o lack of job security

Stress from your organisation or your clients:
· pressures from your boss
· interference in your work
· demands from clients
· disruptions to work plans
· the telephone!

Personal and family stresses:
· financial problems
· relationship problems
· ill-health
· family changes such as birth, death, marriage or divorce.

Fatigue and Overwork

You can get into a vicious circle of stress, which causes you to hurry jobs and do them badly. This under-performance causes feelings of frustration and failure, which causes more stress, which causes more hurry and less success, and so on.

If you do not manage long term stress effectively, it can lead to long term fatigue, failure and one of the forms of physical or mental ill-health

Stress Solution