Dr Ellie Cannon: Is Your Job Making You Ill?: How to survive and thrive when it happens to you

by Cannon, Ellie

ISBN: 9780349416748

Published: 2018

A book aimed at advising, calming and empowering anyone, at any level, who is suffering as a result of their job. Full of take-home pro-active messages, experiential advice and case studies from my clinical experience of the last decade. We all have a laugh and a moan about going to work; groaning about getting on that bus in the rush hour, Monday morning blues, hoping for it to be the weekend again. But what happens when it's no longer a joke, when actually the effects from work are far more detrimental to your wellbeing than just Sunday-night blues? Half a million people in the UK are known to be suffering with stress as a result of their job resulting in 9.9 million working days to be lost each year. Sometimes the hardest part is recognizing or admitting the job is the problem; for others, it is finding a way out that proves the most challenging. In Is Your Job Making You Ill?, Dr Ellie Cannon share the wisdom and experiences she has had with her patients: what has worked, what...