You often suffer from tremendous mental stress in workplace, don’t you?

It is because you now live in a competitive world where you must always be on your toes to keep up with a rat race.

This makes you keyed up and stressed out.

‘We live longer than our forefather; but we suffer more than thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles; we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves’ – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.

Yes!

This quote sums up the life of the modern youth.

Modern youth earn more than their yester brothers, but they also undergo tons of tension unheard of many years ago.

Mostly you wake up in the morning with your head banging with mental stress about your day ahead in your workplace, don’t you?

“I have so much mental stress in work place that I hate my job. How I wish I could find another job?” most of you have this mindset when you start for your work.

You are not a lone case in feeling so.

There are millions of people around the world who dislike their work. They stick to their job as they have no other choice.

You too are no different. You stay in your job because of the unavailability of another choice. When you suffer mental stresss in workplace, you feel gloomy that your job is hapless and worthless.

When you do not like the atmosphere in your workplace, your work suffers and subsequently your success in your job becomes a question mark.

Is it possible to overcome your mental stress in workplace?

Here are real reasons you suffer from mental stress in workplace.

1. A nagging and unsatisfied boss.

If you have a boss who is never satisfied with your work, you hate your job.

Your nagging boss often insults you before your colleagues. Though you fume with helpless anger, you are unable to retaliate as you know it will jeopardize your job.

Your snobbish boss lets off his steam on you and thereby relieves his own tension. But he overloads you with intense anger and frustration against him.

Mostly it is your family commitments that makes you stay in your job even when your boss is downright ruthless and merciless.

Solution

Do not be too submissive when your boss vents his anger against you.

Be assertive and confident when you interact with your boss. You are his employee and not his slave. Your confident attitude should convey the message that your boss cannot make you his punching bag just because you work under him.

When you practice assertiveness, your boss will definitely think twice before he makes any harsh comments against you.

You must understand that your boss will always target his anger and frustration only against his timid employees. Your boss will definitely back track from his angry display against you when you show him that you cannot be toyed along with.

So. don’t be timid and nervous before your boss.

Can you see that when you are assertive, your snobbish boss will take a step back in respect?

2. Unhelpful co-workers

When you do not have amiable relationship with your colleagues, you feel stifled and stressed to work with them.

If you have a hostile colleague near your table, you find it difficult to concentrate in your work. The bully often intimidates you with venomous words.

He intrudes into your work zone needlessly and passes untoward comments about you. Though your hackles rise in anger, you suppress it due to work etiquette.

When your colleagues gossip about you, you feel uneasy working there. When your colleague is a bully, you want an out from your job, but often you do no have an option.

Solution

When you allow yourself to be chased, you will always be chased.

Don’t allow gossips about you unnerve you.

Try your maximum to have good rapport with your colleagues. Be helpful, so that they too reciprocate the same.

If you feel that one particular colleague is making your life in workplace a hell, avoid him.

But never show that the bully is unnerving you,

Do your own work without being cowed down by the bully.

When you ignore him, your bully colleague finds that he cannot needle you and stays away from you.

3. High competition

Today it has become a rat race to the top position. So, often your colleagues pull you down, as they want to stop your race towards supremacy. They will never allow you to get your due. This happens almost in every workplaces.

This needless pulling down that your colleages indulge in makes you feel the intense impact of mental stress in work place.

Denied promotion

Partiality to your co-worker

Domination of your higher officials

These are some of the reasons which you dislike in your workplace.

When you are denied your promotion, you hate your job. You are disheartened when the promotion due to you goes to another person.

When your work is not appreciated, you are stressed to say the least.

Solution

Understand that every job is competitive and that it is you who must keep improvising yourself to stay in the race.

Do not become stressed because of your rejected promotion. When you work efficiently you will eventually get it.

Don’t let your higher officials dominate you. Give them due respect, but don’t show your fear for them.

Work even more rigorously to keep in level with your colleagues.

4. Too much workload

When you are piled with more and more work you find it impossible to cope up.

Before you finish the work allotted to you, your boss gives you another one. You are now overwhelmed by the magnitude of work involved.

Heavy workload automatically leads to unwanted mental stress in workplace.

Solution

Always work steadily and not impatiently.

When you are impatient you do your work in haste. And as with hastiness your work is imperfect and you have to start over again.

You become even more stressed.

5. You are not proficient

When you lack the proficiency needed to make you work efficient, you are mentally stressed. You become gloomy about your incompetence and lack of working skill.

You downgrade yourself as worthless.

Sad, isn’t it?

Solution

What actually is proficiency?

It is an expertise to do your work with perfection.

Is everyone gifted with proficiency by birth?

It is practiced and acquired. When others can acquire proficiency through practice, you too can get it if only you try.

6. Demanding timings

Human body can tolerate only certain amount of work load.

If your work timings is long and tedious, your body refuses to work with competence.

And when you become physically tired, your mind becomes lethargic and declines to think.

An unthinking mind and tired body are lethal combination and you feel mentally stressed and physically weakened.

Solution

You should get eight hours of good sleep.

Eat healthy

Do regular exercises

Have excellent relationship with your spouse.

Good family life acts as an energy booster to combat your fatigue and tiredness.

7. You have too much backlog of work

When your table is piled with papers of unfinished work, you become unnerved by the backlog.

How did you get this backlog?

There are times you feel certain work can wait and delay doing it.

Without you knowing it your work keeps piling up and you feel stressed out by the piles of work load staring at you in your table.

Solution  

Never leave any work undone when your day ends. If you work at a steady pace, there will be no pendiing work in your table.

When you work with concentration you will finish your work in time. When you do your work with controlled speed you can easily do away with needless backlog of work.

Conclusion

When you sit back and think, you will find that mental stress in workplace is often the result of your submissive and negligent attitude.

“Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.” – Terri Guillemets 

Your work is important and your success in it is very important too. But more important is that you should enjoy your job.

So, let your mind relax. You are your own master. When you develop assertiveness, you can easily manage the unwanted mental tension and stress that invade into your work zone.