Stressed out at work? Here's how you can give yourself some head space

Being unable to switch off from the stresses of work may have more to do with your need to be always ‘present’ than the actual job you are in, writes Margaret Jennings.

STRESSED out from work? It may not be the actual job you are in — or your bosses or colleagues, who are to blame, but you yourself.

Harsh as that may sound, it is our own inability to switch off that can leave us exhausted, comfort eating, tossing and turning in bed, irritable, depressed and feeling powerless — to name just a few of the symptoms linked to work stress and burnout.