Mental Health Management

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11. Anxiety is a normal response to threat or danger and part of the usual human experience. However, it can become a mental health problem if the response is exaggerated, lasts more than three weeks and interferes with daily life. Anxiety is characterised by worry and agitation, often accompanied by physical symptoms or feeling palpitation such as rapid breathing and a fast heartbeat or hot and cold sweats.[8] It can be assumed that Mr. X is having those kinds of symptoms without realising it. Therefore Mr. X can be considered having a job stress which associated with anxiety or depression.

12. Besides that, most of the senior workers under Mr. X supervision are having personality disorder. No following instruction and not respect to high supervisor is a behaviour that portrait personality disorder in the workplace. Personality disorder is problem of a person who has difficulty coping with life or surrounding area or people and whose behaviour persistently causes distress to themselves or others.[9] The attitudes of people with a disorder usually exaggerate part of their personality and result in behaviour at odds with expectations of what is regarded as normal.

FACTORS THAT CAUSE STRESS AT WORKPLACE

13. Stress at workplace can be defined as the negative or harmful physical reaction people have to aspects of their environment as they perceive it and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker.[10] Stress is therefore a response to a stimulus and involves a sense of an inability to cope. We each perceive, interpret, cope with and react to the world differently, but a stress reaction is an unpleasant state of anxiety. There are several factors and causes contributed to stress at workplace or occupational stress. Those factors can be categorized in three main factors.

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