There are two opposite points of view on how our psychological state affects our well-being: “all diseases are from the nerves” and “all this is your psychological nonsense.” Let’s try to figure out what office workers actually risk by burning in the workplace.
Heart
Heart attacks are the most common cause of sudden death in the world. And among workaholics and ambitious careerists, the chances of literally earning themselves problems with the cardiovascular system become even higher. The fact is that doctors and psychologists have already established for a long time: ambitious people with a pronounced propensity for competition, impatient and irritable, belong to the risk group for diseases of the cardiovascular system.
And it is these people who are most often successful in business. With the help of these qualities, people are actively moving up the career ladder, building their own business, and fighting with competitors. People with personality type A, as psychologists call it, are the most among top managers, business owners and those who dream of becoming one or the other.
Cancer
However, those who avoid conflict, suppress any negative emotions and tend to rely solely on themselves, risk no less. These are the people who are more likely to get cancer. Scientists called this personality type C (for cancer), and argue that the increased risk of disease is due precisely to the fact that a person suppresses negative emotions.
Therefore, helpful, always kind and cheerful, conflict-free and executive employees, in the end, risk no less than their ambitious bosses. The accumulating discontent eventually begins to “gnaw” them from the inside, leading to fatal consequences.
Digestive tract
Ulcers and gastric ulcers are another common type of office worker. The main reason for these diseases is that the body cannot adapt to the constantly changing rhythm of life: either a frantic race, just to catch up to the deadline, or absolute relaxation. And, of course, erratic food.
By the way, one of the most common reasons for absenteeism is the so-called “irritable bowel syndrome”. Guess for yourself what it is. Hint: you start to be afraid of attending mass events, you stop coping with your duties, you get depressed …
How to live?
Get used to can be done in a week, if only nothing prevents you from fully concentrating on them. The only thing to get used to, most likely, will not succeed – it is constant changes in the work schedule and night work, doctors say. Overworking “knocks down” biorhythms, resulting in problems with the pulse, blood pressure and, sorry, trips to the toilet. This is what a workaholic can notice himself: the doctor will inform him about the hormonal imbalance, and the boss will inform him about the quality of the work he does. It has been noticed that after 8 hours of continuous work, the number of errors increases sharply, and after 9 hours – the likelihood of an industrial accident or injury. Sitting in the office, of course, you cannot drop a jackhammer on your leg, but you have every chance of piercing your hand with a hole punch or breaking your ankle.
Trying to sleep off on the weekend after a week-long marathon at the workplace will not make up for the lack of sleep: the quality of sleep during the day is worse than at night – light and noise interfere. So, by disrupting the biorhythms, you lose 5-7 hours of sleep every week. That is, approximately 312 hours a year – this is almost equal to two weeks’ vacation.
A person feels best when there are no contradictions between the biological clock, external stimuli and conscious activity. In other words, you have to work during the day and sleep at night. And do not overexert yourself.