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Corporate Therapies
Work
Place disharmony “I
hate my job!”. I'm sure you've uttered
these very words on more than one occasion!!!
Are you suffering from bullying, harassment, aggression, cruelty,
viciousness, stalking, intimidation, depression, stress in the
work place? Do you work in a toxic workplace? Your culture is
a result of the values, experiences, and behaviors shared by
your colleagues.
Remember YOU have a choice
Hypnosis for healthy living
You can learn the art of self-hypnosis,
enabling you to become more relaxed and calm and to take control
of, and deal with
your stress etc..
Stress in the work place:
Don’t let
the stress of the job get you down. Learn to manage stress,
to cope with stressful situations that may arise
in your life.
Stress in the work place is increasing at an alarming rate,
which arises when the demands and expectations on a person
exceeds
their capacity to meet the expectations.
Some stressful situations in the work-place may involve an
intimate working relationship, lack of control. Stress leads
to emotional and psychological, physical, distorted
cognitive
thinking and fatigue, lack of job satisfaction, substance abuse,
anxiety, depression, irritability, bullying and harassment.
Stress is on everyone's mind these days. However, whilst
almost
everyone seems to feel "stressed", most people are
unaware that stress comes in two forms - positive and negative.
- Positive
stress: is the result of good management and excellent
leadership, where everyone works hard, is kept informed and
involved, and – more importantly - is valued and supported. People
then feel more in control of their lives.
- Negative
stress: is the result of a bullying climate where
threats and coercion substitute for non-existent management
skills. When
people use the word "stress" on its own, they usually
mean "negative stress".
- Bullying ‘The Silent Epidemic' : Work
place bullying is continued and deliberate unfair, unjust or
abusive treatment / aggression
of an individual at work
by one or more co-workers, supervisors,
managers or customers.
Bullying leads to increased stress, accidents, low motivation, making
mistakes, loss of confidence, low self – esteem which leads to
illness and increased absenteeism.
Warning: these are the signs of a toxic workplace.
Bullying.
The “bully” needs to
be challenged, helped and re-empowered. These health-endangering
types of violating people compromise the targeted individuals
physical and psychological health,
disrupt their careers, and adversely affect their families.
Employers suffer, too.
The truth is that “bullies” are too expensive to keep.
Stalking
The stalker exhibits a familiar pattern of behaviour. Stalking
often starts as a result of rejection, rage or abandonment. This
in turn motivates the stalker to seek revenge. The stalker, usually
a loner and socially inept, becomes obsessed with their target
and bombards them with messages, emails, gifts, or abuse. The
stalking behaviour can last for years and the intensity of abuse
increases over time. The abuse, initially consisting of psychological
violence, often escalates and culminates in physical violence.
PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) is a natural emotional reaction to a deeply shocking
and disturbing
experience. It
is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation,
e.g. resulting from accident, disaster, bank robberies, hold
ups, bomb threats, war, terrorism, torture, and grief etc.
There is growing recognition that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
can result from many types of shocking experiences including
an accumulation of small, individually non-life-threatening
events in which case the resultant PTSD is referred to as Complex
PTSD.
Symptoms that last for over one month are classed as PTSD.
Common symptoms, hyper vigilance (feels like but is not paranoid)
exaggerated startle response, irritability, sudden angry or
violent outbursts, flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive recollections,
replay
triggers, sleep disturbance, exhaustion and chronic fatigue,
reactive depression, guilt, feelings of detachment, avoidance
behaviors, nervousness, or anxiety.
People may also develop phobias about specific daily routines,
events or objects, irrational or impulsive behaviour, loss
of interest, loss of ambition, anhedonia (inability to feel joy
and pleasure) poor concentration, impaired memory, joint pains,
muscle pains, emotional numbness, physical numbness, low self-esteem
etc.
Breakdown
The word "breakdown" is often used to describe the
mental collapse of someone who has been under intolerable strain.
There is usually an (inappropriate) inference of "mental
illness". All these are lay terms and mean different things
to different people.
There are two types of breakdown:
- Nervous breakdown or mental
breakdown is a consequence of mental illness
- Stress breakdown is a psychiatric
injury, which is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation.
The two types of
breakdown are distinct and should not be confused. A stress
breakdown is a natural and normal
conclusion to a
period of prolonged negative stress; the body is saying "I'm
not designed to operate under these conditions of prolonged
negative
stress so I am going to do something dramatic” ensuring
that you reduce or eliminate the stress otherwise your
body may suffer irreparable damage; you must take action
now. A
stress
breakdown is often predictable, days or weeks in advance.
The person's fear, fragility, obsessive-ness, hyper-vigilance
and hyper-sensitivity can combine to evolve into paranoia.
If this happens, a stress breakdown is only days or even
hours away
and the person needs urgent medical help. The risk of
suicide at
this point is heightened.
Often the cause of negative stress in an organisation
can be traced to the behaviour of one individual. The
profile
of
this individual is that of a bully. I believe bullying is
the main
- but least recognised - cause of negative stress in
the workplace today.
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