Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I have been doing well over the past few months, but on Friday a coworker gave her notice and I can feel the anxiety about work lurking around the edges. I hate feeling like this about work! It's so frustrating to me. I can't leave work at work. I've allowed my self worth to become tied to my job. I feel like I have to do it all. Asking for help or admitting I'm feeling overwhelmed is admitting a weakness. Sometimes I just want to quit and stay home, but financially that is not a reality. And generally I really like my job. I'm sitting here in bed waiting for alarm and just wanting to bail out of my life. I'm 50 and this is not where I'd thought I'd be.
Anxiety increases when we are hungry, angry, lonely, tried, stressed or sick. This is true for every human in the world - anxiety is a natural emotion and all people have it. Anxiety becomes a "disorder" when it assigns "danger" to a non dangerous situation.
Recovery from anxiety is essentially not responding to an anxious thought. This is easier said than done, but it is possible. Look for instruction on CBT - this will teach you how to manage your thoughts.
Also look into "self care" - this is very important. Learn to take care of yourself - eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, drink enough water - practice yoga. And one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself is learn and practice zen meditation. This teaches you to "let go" of a thought - which is essentially recovery.
I wish you peace.
Cognitive Behavioral Skills You'll Need to Beat Anxiety
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201212/cognitive-behavioral-skills-youll-need-beat-anxiety
Best wishes
NJ
There may be free counselling sessions, there may be things he/she can do to help you negotiate a better work environment.
Have you told your boss that you feel, let's say, that your workload has increased to the point where it's too high? he/she may either say 'let's reduce it' or else may say 'don't spend so much time working on this, spend it working on that'.
It's your boss' job to mentor you through any growth required to master the role. You have your part to play in that: you have to give feedback. Bosses I have had have typically just left me to it unless I squawked.
But obviously how you relate to your boss will depend on what that person is actually like.
Have you ever complained about anything before to see how you are reacted to?
Getting our needs met as workers in the workplace is part of being effective workers, and if we go ahead and fight for those needs (with intelligence, facts, documentation and our ducks in a row) we will be respected and considered effective. We don't lose their respect when we fight for pay rises, etc. We actually quietly gain it.