How Work Abuse Causes Mental Health Problems How does work abuse affect mental health?
Like overkill, work abuse effectively creates stress through 5 levels of assault: (l) the abuse itself, (2) the inability to protest it, (3) being blamed and feeling guilty for reacting against it, (4) having to live in denial of all of this, (5) feeling guilty for the symptoms that then develop and further disrupt the employee’s functioning. WORK ABUSE: SOCIAL ISSUE LONG IGNORED Work abuse is an epidemic; the vast majority of workplaces are still abusive when they don’t have to be. Attitudes like “paying your dues,” “just a way to pay the bills,” and “TGIF” are too familiar. The truth is that we, as a society, have long expected work to be a miserable experience most of the time. Just as in the 19th century it was the norm to think of healthy child-rearing as crushing a child’s spirit, it’s been the norm for work to be a form of punishment we escape from gladly. It’s a positive sign that workplace opinion polls have been showing a steady trend toward more working people choosing job s
