Hi All,

Currently i had joined a new company half year back, and for the past few months had undergo tremendous amount of stress. Ever since August, i need to work almost everyday besides MC and the day i was not productive and forced to stop. I had to put work as first priority for the past few months and sacrifice a lot of my precious social life with friends and family. It sucks as i do not expect i need to push myself to such limit. Whole (IT) project is in a mess and core programmers are leaving, which added more risk into the already havoc situation.

It targeted to go live early Jan so this 2 months' pressure is humongous. A lot of migration shit need to clean up and i felt that i had lost control over the situation. I had thought of leaving but still during the notice period, there's no escape from continue to suffer from this project till gone live.

OK now the main point, i had suffered from constant anxiety and it's worsen since end of last month, every morning i suffered from tingling hand and feel of vomiting, the tingling feel had continues most of the remaining days. Constant worrying and unable to relax even i am now taking a 2 days break seating at the PD sea view starbuck... mind just filling with those long overdue pending jobs and pressure from various parties...Sometimes i know what i exactly need to do, but i just seat in front of my laptops, and totally lost of interest of it...like waiting to die...i guess i had burned out..

First time i had such feeling in my entire life, and i would never expect it comes from work...the lowest priority stuff in our life..

How usually you guys deal with such situation? Do i need to visit a psychologist? Any recommended at PJ area?

This post has been edited by blueforestangle: Nov 15 2014, 04:20 PM

solution :
1) quit job
2) be more efficient by prioritizing and organizing things, go talk to your senior/boss if you are lost or don't know where to start
3) propanolol can help with anxiety.......but wont increase your productivity

Go for a run my friend . Sweat it out .

explore other options & potentials… end your suffering and live your life...

You should talk with your boss and tell him your problem instead of telling your problem to a psychologist.

Now you know that the source of your anxiety is your IT Project. Solve that issue and your anxiety will go away.

No 1
Problem focused coping (Your priority)
- Talk to your boss and discuss the issues
- Seek assistance from colleagues

No 2
Emotion focused coping (If the above doesn't lead to anything)
- Talk with your friends/family outside your work
- Hang out with your friends
- Exercise

Last resort
- Quit your job

As you can see, using emotion-focused coping only helps you to distract your attention from your work issue temporarily. So, emotion-focused coping will not ease your anxiety in the long term.

Quitting your job will certainly lift the burden but as you said, you still need to serve the notice until January. By this time, the project is expected to be completed. So, quitting is not the wise option now. But if you know there will be another huge project coming next year, you might want to consider quitting. But first of all, always discuss the problem with your boss first.

http://psychological-musings.blogspot.com/...on-focused.html

This post has been edited by Blofeld: Nov 16 2014, 03:52 PM

What position are you in the company.
Need to highlight to the manager. Their job is to worry, not you.