Stress +
- Feelings of Anxiety and Depression derived from interpersonal conflicts (confrontation, discussions) recurring with colleagues or other authorities in the professional field.
- Repeating professional failures.
- Excessive fear of losing one’s job.
- Fear and high anxiety facing new responsibilities.
- Feelings of failure due to bad experiences.
- Feelings of failure over promotions not obtained or professional objectives not reached.
Workaholics +
- People who put pressure on themselves and on others to get more results who never seem enough.
- Committing excessive time and energy to one’s work.
- Difficulty to stop his professional activities in order to think or relax.
- Long periods without vacation.
- Professional achievement being the only way to get satisfaction.
- Fear of professional failure and difficulties confronting failure.
- Excessive need for control over one’s business (need of organization and planning, perfectionism and difficulty in delegating).
- Tending to get upset with those who do not meet expectations.
- Unsatisfying private life.
- Symptoms of muscle tension, gastrointestinal and vascular problems, etc..
Burn-out +
- Repeating professionnal absenteism.
- Being unproductive and a permanent sensation of being over-demanded professionnally.
- Difficulties in social relationships, both in personal and in professional life.
- Depressive symptoms and loss of illusions and vocation.
- Anxiety, irritability and feelings of failure.
- Taking emotional distance to others.
- Associated symptoms: chronic fatigue, headaches, insomnia, muscle pain and gastrointestinal problems.
Mobbing +
- Difficulty to be heard by one’s superiors.
- Being victim of agressions (shouts, verbal abuse and threats) by his colleagues.
- Being criticized both for professional reasons (quality or quantity of work) and for personal reasons (private life).
- Being avoided or ignored by its officers and / or colleagues leading to isolation of the individual.
- Being slandered or mocked.
- Being forced to perform humiliating, useless or absurd tasks for which one is over- or under-qualified.
- Being discredited or ignored about decisions or professional actions taken.
- Being deprived of work to be done.
Anxiety +
- Excessive and persistent concern in relation to certain circumstances, that has no factual or logical basis (based on facts or logic).
- Muscle tension, fatigue, shaking and / or agitation.
- Hyperactivity symptoms: palpitations, difficulty in breathing or swallowing, nausea and diarrhea.
- Symptoms of hypervigilance: feeling constantly in an extreme situation, difficulty finding concentration, insomnia and general irritation.
Depression +
- Loss of appetite.
- Sad mood.
- Lack of interest in hobbies and activities.
- Insomnia.
- Drowsiness.
- Hyperactivity.
- Lack of energy.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Difficulty being in relationship with others.
- Suicidal thoughts.
- Poor self-esteem.
- Feelings of guilt.
- Feelings of hopelessness.
- Unresolved grief.
- Social isolation.
- Frequent discouragements.
Somatizations +
- Fear of undergoing repetitive serious illnesses without a medical basis that can confirm this.
- Varied symptoms without organic foundation that drives a person to frequently visiting doctors, taking non-prescribed drugs and behaving erratically in relation to his health.
- Stressing factors that can lead to illnesses and cause psychological conflicts.
- Excessive worry and frequent complaints in relation to chronic pain despite the absence of confirmed disease.
Chronic pain +
- Feeling pain having exceeded for a period over six months beyond the normal healing process so that the pain significantly limits normal activity.
- Widespread pain in muscles, bones and joints that restrict the normal functioning of the person.
- Progressive use and abuse of painkiller drugs.
- Daily tension, migraine and headaches.
- Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Irritable colon.
- Not engaging in professional activities, at home or at leisure because of the pain.
- Depressive symptoms due to pain.
- Feeling generally limited: “I can not do what I did before” or “Nobody understands me” or “Why me?” or “When will it end?” or “I can not go on like this.”
Eating disorders +
- Chronic and rapid absorption of large amounts of food rich in carbohydrates.
- Excessive concern for body image and perception of inadequate self-image.
- Inducing vomit or abusing of laxatives for fear of weight gain.
- Significant loss of weight (amenorrhea in women) and a refusal to maintain medically correct weight.
- Irrational and excessive fear of weight gain.
Problems in couple +
- Frequent and repetitive discussions inside the couple.
- Lack of communication.
- Systematically blaming the spouse for the existing problems.
- Separations.
- Divorces.
- Having love affairs outside the couple.
- Physical or psychological abuse in marriage.
- Looking for activities outside the couple (professional, social) and investing oneself in them so as to put as much distance as possible from the couple (emotionally and sexually).
- Repeating choice of antagonistic relations due to the difficulty of maintaining a healthy and strong relationship, by picking dysfunctional and problematic companions.
Family conflicts +
- Difficulties communicating inside the family.
- Recurring conflicts with parents or close members of the family.
- Families that fail to provide support or to exert a positive influence over its members because of lack of communication.
- Conflicts derived from parent being too fusional and thus invading the life of their children.
- Difficulties being independant inside family life.
- Feeling rejectd by one own’s family.
Dependance +
- Difficulty being self-sufficient, financial dependance from parents, individually and in housing.
- Love affairs very short and close to one another and in time.
- Fear and panic when confronted to the possibility of being alone in a relationship close to its end.
- Feeling easily hurt by other’s comments and unhappy if one do not please others.
- Need of third parties to take decisions or to face new initiatives.
- Obtaining happiness exclusively through the relationship with others.
- Fear of being abandoned.
- Seeking problematic relationships coupled with physical and/or psychogical abuse and big difficulty getting rid of them.
- Avoiding disagreement with others and expression of one’s own opinions for fear of being rejected.
Poor self-esteem +
- Difficulty accepting compliments.
- Being very critical of one self, to see one self as unattractive, a loser, small.
- Difficulty saying “No” to others.
- Fear of being rejected by others.
- Difficulty finding qualities in oneself.
- Feeling unease at social gatherings, especially in large groups.
- Lack of vital projects and objectives definitions that do not match one’s own abilities.
Sexual problems +
- Partial or total absence of sexual desire.
- Feelings of rejection or evitation related to sexual activity.
- Absence of physiological sexual response (reaching or maintaining an erection or vaginal lubrication).
- Lack of pleasure or pleasurable sensations during intercourse.
- Delay or lack of orgasm or ejaculation during satisfactory sexual intercourse.
- Genital pain before, during or after sex.
- Involuntary contraction which prevents vaginal penetration.