Your job can be one of the most intense sources of stress in your life. Your boss, deadlines, meetings, demands, office politics, and irritating customers are just a few of the myriad forms of stress we encounter on a daily basis. And each one of these can potentially trigger an anxiety attack if you don't know how to control and eliminate the source of the stress.
Learning how to handle stress at work will help you do a better job and can actually contribute to an improvement in your overall mental and physical health.
Here's a few ways to manage stress at work to stop anxiety and panic attacks.
Take on Problems One a Time
As work related problems start to pile up, control the urge to tackle everything all at once. Select one problem and work on it until it is resolved.
Once accomplished you will feel a sense of relief and accomplishment and be ready to tackle the next challenge. Too often, people try to take on multiple problems all at once. The mountain seems insurmountable and the stress levels begin to rise.
Before he or she knows it, someone says something irritating or upsetting in some way and a triggering moment occurs. An anxiety episode is suddenly in full blown force and if more severe in nature it may become a full blown a panic attack.
Sound familiar? Try tackling issues one at a time, step-by-step..it will help keep you calm and you will accomplish more as well!
Don't Let Customer Problems Impact Your Health
If customers become obnoxious or antagonistic, keep in mind they may have other problems at home and they are venting their problems at you.
When people are irritating, demanding, or difficult, the source of their problems is one they haven't been able to resolve. So they may be using you to quell their own anger or anxiety triggers. It's a lousy and ineffective way to handle things but it's all they know.
Keep that in mind that they are not really giving you a hard time, rather it is whoever or whatever is underlying as a cause. Do this and you will be able to keep your stress level low and avoid a triggering event for an anxiety episode.
Take Some Time for You
I know many people who are committed workaholics. They drive themselves from pre dawn to late at night because the work is just so important that all else must take a subordinate role. As a result they are worn out, over stressed, unhealthy, have marriages in trouble, don't know their kids, and wonder why they have an anxiety attack when driving on a Los Angeles Freeway enroute to work.
Keep work in perspective. It is important, but is not your whole life. I have never heard of anyone who on their deathbed wished they had spent another hour a day at work. When work starts to take over your life to the detriment of what's really important, take some time off.
If you simply can't take time away from work, make your work environment as comfortable and pleasant as possible. Put up some family photos and add a few personal touches to your desk or workspace.
Keep pleasant images in front of you as a reminder of why you are there. Focus on the fun times with those you love that are the reason of work. Do this and workplace stress will seem insignificant in comparison.
Implement these simple techniques and your productivity will improve. More importantly, your personal life will as well.
The end result will be a lowering of workplace related stress that dominates your mind and emotional state, keeping those anxiety episodes at bay.
A happy life, a lower or controlled stress job, and a freedom from anxiety and panic attacks. Now that's what I call success!
I suffered from severe panic and anxiety attacks. I am not a health professional but did eliminate the attacks without medication. For information and tips on how to eliminate panic and anxiety attacks like I did visit the Panic Anxiety Attack Site @ http://panicanxietyattacksite.info//
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