Six useful tips to manage workplace anxiety – Arabian Business

Six useful tips to manage workplace anxiety – Arabian Business

If you’re an anxious person, this scenario will sound familiar: you’re at work, minding your own business, when anxiety starts to creep in.

Whether you’re worrying about something specific, like an imminent deadline, or you just have a formless feeling of dread, you might be telling yourself something along these lines: “You’ve got to get back to work, stop worrying, stop obsessing, get your head back in the game and just focus!“ Seeing that fail, if you’re prone to catastrophising — which anxious people often are — the next thing you’ll worry about is that you’ll get fired.

So, then, you’ll worry about worrying. Soon enough, your mind will seem to have spiraled out of control, and you may even find yourself in the middle of a full-blown panic attack.