Stress is something that most everybody feels at one point or another in their lives, but yet nobody can quite define it. The first thing you may think of when you hear the word stress is “feeling” overloaded and nervous. But stress also is a force which creates upset stomachs, gnawing fear, migraine headaches, severe grief, excessive drinking, and violent rages. Our memories are dulled by the stress in our lives, our thinking ability diminished, and our efficiency is retarded.

The best way to prevent stress from developing into depression is to take care of it before it gets out of control. Stress is everywhere and it is probably not practical to actually reduce the stressful situations that are causing the problem, But it is possible to control how you deal with the stressful situations.

Sometimes the very worst enemy in our life is the stress caused by our jobs. Work stress is unpleasant. In response to it, one person may visit a park to jog, another may quit the job another may smoke more. These are all ways of attempting to reduce or cope with the unpleasantness of excessive stress. The method you use will depend on your needs, value system, style of living, and the particular stressors that are affecting you.

Common work situations that produce discomfort, anxiety, and stress are organizational change. Stress and change are almost synonymous terms. Change often disrupts the flow of work as well as relationships between people. Even a change for the better, like new equipment or opening a brand new building, or the purchase of a new computer system, is perceived by some as a loss.

There is nothing that makes work harder than it has to be than fighting with your boss. What is there to do if you and your boss or supervisor is not getting along and all you feel is tension and stress each day?

Reducing some of this stress will benefit you and your employer. Meeting regularly with your manager or supervisor to discuss problem at least once a year to discuss performance and other issues that affect you on the job may help. Good time management skills and leaving your job at the office and don’t give up any of your free time to catch up on work if you don’t have to.

We respond to stress physically, mentally, and emotionally and in the way we behave. The physical signs are easy to understand when we understand the physiology of stress. Other signs are a little more difficult to recognize unless we are aware of them. Some of us respond predominantly through bodily symptoms. It is important that we recognize the way we respond to stress. Unless and until we recognize our symptoms we will not be able to learn how to prevent or minimize them.