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Occupational Stress
Our time is spent most on working as compared to any other activity.

Occupational stress occurs when a factor or a combination of some factors at work, interacts with the worker and disrupt his psychological or physical wellbeing. Stress at work is usually caused by either:

Work overload - where demand is over what the worker is able to do.
Or it may be caused by ambiguity of task that they are required to perform.

Stimulus underload - little or no jobs for worker to perform.
Occupational Stress Produces: -

job dissatisfaction
increase in level of cholesterol
increased heart rate
excessive smoking which would lead to
risk of having heart disease.

Social Networks Disintegration
Research has shown that relationships between people are of the utmost importance to a person's physical and psychological health. Hence if someone important to you dies or moves away, your social network may disintegrate and you would most probably be affected by the change as; as people, we need the warmth and love that human contact would bring.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS

Diseases - Stress has been the consequence for 50-80% of diseases.
Insomnia - The inability to fall asleep.
Hypertension - High blood pressure, which would lead to lethal complications.
Aging - Research has proven that people age faster when they experience more stress.

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