
Pressure in the City
London can be a busy and stressful place to work. With increasingly busy transport links, a tangibly unsettled economy and the consumer lead pressures of modern life, might this impact on a city worker's emotional well-being? Models of emotional well-being highlight our environment as a big determinant of our mental well being. This is because we all have a propensity to internalise our external world, and the extent to which we do this can depend on the severity of what is g

Work place stress and therapy
Work-related stress is a prevalent health problem in the United Kingdom with the Health & Safety Executive’s Labour Force quoting 10.8 million lost working days a year due to mental health based difficulties including stress and depression. However only 17% of staff in the work place receive any form of stress management advice and support. This suggests that there is a gap between the experiences people have in the workplace and the importance and acknowledgement given to th