Depressed Due To Office Environment? What Should You Do
If you ever feel like quitting your job, you need to address if you have a workplace illness. Depression is a illness and can treated if taken care of. You need simple ways to handle stress and can shoo away depression if you start working with it.
Here are simple ways you can handle stress at work:
1. Don’t quit.
First, and foremost thing. There are better chances that quitting your job will make you more depressed if you quit it now rather than showing up in office rather forcefully. Sitting idle will push the brain to think more about the hateful work environment, leading to negativity. Think of the monthly phone, electricity and mortgage bills that will add up if you stopped receiving a monthly paycheck in the account. Sitting idle will force you to think about your colleagues still working, but isolation will lead to negative energy. So, don’t quit yet and pass off the tough days thinking about the future.
2. Relaxation methods.
Learn simple and effective calming techniques which you can do yourself. You can move and relax your shoulders in a way that relieves some of the tension. Take deep breaths as you walk around in office, from your seat to the cabin of your boss and back forth. Listen to music if possible, it will calm down your nerves, taking you away from all the stress and tension. Invest in a premium music device, to bring you back to sanity.
3. Work schedule.
Extremely important when you are going through a bad phase. Make a working schedule and strictly adhere to it. Working overtime can cause stress levels to rise; and a demanding schedule can explode. Manage you assignments and take upon each of them one by one. Don’t panic under the bulk of assignments and ease out yourself by giving time to your personal life.
Focus your mind strictly on work during office time to nail your assignments on time. This will give you personal time and you can invest it on yourself and family. Personal life is equally important. Things will not work out smooth enough. Break down your schedule into achievable targets to bring in more productivity to work life, keeping stress at bay.
4. Its all in the mind.
It is important for everyone to understand that stress leading to depression is all in the mind. It is the inability of the brain to cope up with all that problems that come its way. Depression is a state of mind; it is all inside and nothing external. Stress and happiness are due to the thought process that the brain goes through. The mind will only work the way we control it. Make sure you control your mind and deal with the work load and the workplace environment.
5. Work conditions.
Different people calibrate themselves differently to the working atmosphere. You may be a highly sensitive person to be able to cope up with a certain atmosphere. You may feel depressed about the working conditions around you. But there are ways you can sort it out, by putting up a nice plant around your desk, adding photo frames you can look up to for refreshing your mood, using balanced daylight. Cleanliness is one more important factor, which may look like loading off the burden of your head. Better the work conditions, better your mood.
