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How to survive workplace stress in the recession

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Ruth, a company consultant, used to work 16-hour days. “I would get up at 4am and be at my computer by 4.30am,” she says. “I was working six, often seven, days a week. I didn’t see my husband for months. Even when we’d go away for the weekend, I’d take a laptop. Whenever I complained I was told I wasn’t being paid to complain.”

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Health@Work says Liverpool workers are suffering mental health illnesses

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A LIVERPOOL charity is warning that mental health illness among employees is on the rise after the sustained recession.

Health@Work has highlighted a new report revealing that 47% of workers are experiencing depressive symptoms during the recession which is five times higher than levels recorded before the slump.

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Recession creates depression – 12-04-2010

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Poverty charity Elizabeth Finn Care and Roehampton University have revealed new research highlighting a staggering rise in mental health illness among UK workers, directly attributable to worries related to the economic downturn.

The study shows that an alarming 47% of people have experienced depressive symptoms during the recession – some four-to-five times higher than levels recorded amongst the general population before the slump.

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Heightened anxiety

Monday, March 1st, 2010

If you still have a job, you’re lucky indeed. But sometimes it just doesn’t feel that way.

Survivor guilt has been replaced by survivor stress.

Early in this recession it was not unusual for people to feel a twinge of remorse when co-workers were laid off and they weren’t. But two years of layoffs, buyouts, furloughs and general downsizing have taken their toll on the employees left standing.

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Men more sensitive to recession blues

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The global economic downturn is taking toll on men’s mental health, a new survey has Stress found.

The survey, conducted by mental health charity Mind, found almost 40 percent of men to be feeling low with job security,work and money playing on their minds.

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Post-Recession, the Search for Quality of Life Begins

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Last October the UK economy was expected to have grown once again, and the recession therefore to be called to an end, but it’s taken yet another three months for the economy to actually “recover”, with 0.1% growth in the last quarter.

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‘Three-quarters suffer depression’

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Three out of four people in the UK suffer from depression at some point but only a third seek help, a poll has found.

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16 suicides a day as recession blamed

Friday, January 29th, 2010

THE number of deaths by suicide has risen in direct relation to the economic recession.

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Young unemployed recession victims also suffer from mental health issues

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

A report by the Princes Trust yesterday warned that the recession is likely to scar the lives of the almost one million people currently under 25 and out of work who are the main victims of this recession.

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NHS stress phone service launched

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

An NHS helpline to help people struggling with stress has been launched by the government.

The service is available across England in response to concerns about the mounting problems people will face in coming months because of the economy.

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