Positive Wellbeing 

Stress, Anxiety and Depression is very real and alive within the business community. Research shows that managers typically underestimate the extent that colleagues and employees suffer from stress, anxiety and depression. In fact, nearly 30% of workers experience a mental health problem in any one year. The increased amount of time we spend at work and the intense personal energy that we apply to our work affects life in many ways. Not only does it impact performance at work, it affects who we are as an individual. Our reactions and coping strategies become stretched and our relationships with colleagues, friends and family are perhaps not as fluid as they could be.

At Simply Change Coaching we take the approach (if necessary in conjunction with specialised health professionals), that everyone deserves the help to explore the tools and techniques that assist with the move towards positive well being. Simply Change Coaching applies Cognitive Behavioural techniques to assist in the restructuring of behavioural patterns and coping mechanisms.

Simply Change Coaching offers a safe forum to discuss options and pathways for moving forward.

What is Stress, Anxiety and Depression?

Stress - Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another. Stress is a response to pressure. Good stress can motivate you and help you be more productive, excessive stress can be costly to employers and above all can make people ill.

Research has shown that feeling stressed at work is not confined to particular occupations or levels within organisations.

Anxiety - Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The source of this uneasiness is not always known or recognised, which can add to the distress you feel. Anxiety is an exhausting condition, both mentally and physically. Physiological effects can include a pounding heart, sweaty hands, headaches, muscle stiffness and tightness of breath. Cognitive effects impact people's memories and ability to focus and process information. In the workplace they may have trouble concentrating and often don't process information well.

Anxiety typically arises when people feel that situations are out of their control. Workplaces are particularly fertile grounds for generating such situations.

Depression- Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue or unhappy. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. True clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended period of time. Depression is generally ranked in terms of severity - mild, moderate, or severe. Symptoms may include trouble sleeping or excessive sleeping, a dramatic change in appetite, fatigue and lack of energy, feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, and inappropriate guilt, extreme difficulty concentrating, agitation, restlessness, and irritability, inactivity and withdrawal from usual activities.

Depression touches everyone, from friends and family to co-workers. While at any one time 1 in 20 employees can experience depression, if it's left undetected, depression leads to decreased productivity and increased sick days. Once depression is recognized, help can make a difference for 80% of people who are affected, allowing them to get back to their regular activities.