Anxiety is an extreme sort of worry and tension that makes anything look chaotic and messy to the person suffering from a mental health disorder. Anxious people think that their imagination and visualizations of their minds as true and get away from reality due to the extreme negative thoughts related to a person, event, situation, or any happening.
Dealing with such people on a daily basis can actually affect our mental health as we will become more habituated to think in those patterns and also start worrying over small to big things unnecessarily leading to declining mental and physical health. If you come across someone that can be a colleague or team leader or your boss suffering from anxiety, it is better you learn how to deal with them rather than believing in all that they say and think blindly.
If the anxious person tells you to work for 12 to 15 hours a day because the company will not sustain during the pandemic times, then it is time that you think of taking a break from your work or start searching for a better job opportunity where the work hours are humane and not machine-based. It is pathetic to stretch your work hours if your boss doesn’t know how to figure out his company’s problem.
Don’t waste your talent and believe that the market is slow or you cannot get a good fixed working hour even if your boss or colleague convinces you for the same as there are still talented and good-minded people out there who are waiting for people like you to join their organization.
If you find that your work profile has been changed drastically then ask for a valid reason. If you liked the changed job profile and are willing to work towards the same, then go ahead but if you think it is injustice done towards you then it is time to speak up to the management and ask for your work profile back. Remember self-care is as much as important these days as helping others in times of crisis.
