Signs That Work Life Is Taking Its Toll

Could it be that your work life is bleeding out into your personal life? Raising a family is a job in itself, so work should only be about following your career goals and putting food on the table. However, we can find that our personal life becomes altered when work is getting to us. As parents we can then be short-tempered with our kids, make shortcuts for things we don’t need to such as not cooking and buying fast food for dinner and a whole range of things that change us into someone we don’t want to be. It's hard to resist getting annoyed or taking the frustrations of work to your home. We’re only human after all and feeling as if you need to change in some way to not get angry is normal. Here are some signs your work is taking its toll.

   

Tense neck and chest 

When we get tense and frustrated, it tends to show in our muscles. Most people can feel it in their shoulders as many knots form at the top and on our trap muscles. However, it can also make our neck and chest tense. Our blood pressure rises when we get stressed and angry, so the blood flow up toward the head is sometimes squeezed as it's the tallest traveling point of our blood. Our chest, therefore, has to work harder to pump blood around our body and especially up to our brain. Hence why if you feel a constant tightness in your neck and chest, you need to find ways of calming down and relaxing when you get off work. 

A chronic ringing 

At first, when we begin working in a somewhat loud environment, we definitely notice the difference from our old job. There’s just a lot of noise, no discernable sounds but just a wave of loudness. Getting off from work, if you can hear a ringing noise in your ear when you are in a quiet place, chances are your hearing is being damaged. It's not normal to have this chronic monotone high pitch noise in your ears. Here are some staple signs you need hearing protection for your work and how you could avoid long-lasting damage to your eardrums. Other signs may be that you tend to talk louder to people and they tell you to lower your voice. To you, it sounds completely normal, but that’s because normal sound levels have been made duller and quieter to your ears. 

Popping pills 

Headaches should only happen rarely. It takes a complex set of circumstances in your brain for it to feel internal pain. High amounts of stress for long periods of time can cause migraines and constant headaches. If you find yourself taking pills to soothe your headache pain more than twice a week, then you need to find ways of relieving your stress or changing things up at work. 

Work life should never have an effect on your personal life at home. Dragging the office back to your living room mentally is not a healthy way to live. Eventually, our health catches up to us so before you have some serious issues you should make some changes to your lifestyle.