Professional Difficulties

Professional circle and life are the source of many miseries, such as:

Stress

  • Feelings of anxiety and depression derived from recurring interpersonal conflicts (confrontation, arguments) with colleagues or other authorities in the professional field
  • Repeated professional setbacks
  • Excessive fear of losing the job
  • Distress and big anxiety in view of new responsabilities
  • Feelings of failure due to bad professional experiences
  • Feelings of failure regarding promotions or professional goals not attained

Burn-out

  • Frequent professional absences
  • Being little productive and with a constant feeling of being professionnally over-demanded
  • Difficulties in social relationships, in professional as well as personal lives
  • Symptomatology of depression and loss of hopes and calling
  • Anxiety, irritability and feeling of failure
  • Emotional distancing from others
  • Associated symptomatology: chronic fatigue, headaches, insomnia, muscular pain and gastro-intestinal troubles

Mobbing

  • Difficulty to be heard by one’s managers
  • Being victim of agressions (shouting, insults and menaces) coming from colleagues
  • Being criticised for professional reasons (quality or quantity of work) as well as for personal reasons (private life)
  • Being averted or ignored by managers or colleagues, leading to isolation of the individual
  • Being calomniated or ridiculed
  • Being forced to perform tasks that are humiliating, useless or absurd, for which the person is under or overqualified
  • Being ignored in regard to decisions or professional action performed
  • Being deprived of work

Workaholics

  • People who put pressure on themselves and on others in order to obtain more output, which will always be deemed insufficient
  • Dedicating excessive time and energy to one’s professional activity
  • Difficulties in stopping professional activities in view of thinking or relaxing
  • Long periods without holidays
  • Professional achievement as the only means to obtain satisfaction
  • Fear of professional failure and difficulty in facing failure
  • Excessive need of control over one’ professional activity (large need of organizing and planning, perfectionism and difficulty to delegate on others)
  • Tendency to get on nerves with anybody who does not match one’s expectations and requirements
  • Unsatisfying private life
  • Symptomatology of muscular tension, gastro-intestinal and vascular troubles, etc.