Stress: what definition(s)?
Everyone knows what it's all about and has experienced it more or less; what is new is that stress, in the professional environment, has increased and has become a subject of complaint, dysfunction and preventive or curative treatment on the part of HRDs.
We can say first of all that it is an imbalance of perception of the constraints of the environment in relation to one's own resources.
There is therefore a cognitive challenge involving reason, which can of course be disturbed by emotional aspects.
There are two types of stress:
- a stress that arises from a traumatic event, which is therefore sudden and acute and generates a fear that cannot be appeased. It can turn into post traumatic stress and deserves great vigilance.
- stress associated with an accumulation of events, more or less well digested, but which ultimately lead to overflowing "one drop too many" and degenerate into exhaustion, burn out.
Professional life is essentially made up of constraints and constant adaptations to these constraints.
These can be:
- new technologies
- Moving
- A change of manager or management team
- A restructuring
- A disaster
- A workplace accident
- An agression
Any change in habits creates upheaval and uncertainty and weakens. You have to be aware of it and learn to manage it.
