According to a new study appearing in the May 1, 2009 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, reducing your job stress may lower your risk of depression.
The study found that, over a period of ten years, those workers who initially reported that their jobs were stressful, but later reported feeling that their jobs had become less stressful, were at the same risk of developing depression as those workers who had felt their jobs were low-stress the entire time.
The researchers point out that, in any given 30-day period, 4.4% of U.S. workers have major depression. They further note that work stress has been linked to depression risk.
These results indicate that interventions targeted to reducing job stress may significantly reduce the risk of depression, said the authors.
The investigators also found that, of those who reported consistently high job stress during the study, 8% had an episode of major depression at some point during the study, compared to 4% of those who had low job stress during the entire time period. Those who started out with high stress jobs that became less stressful over time had virtually the same risk of depression with 4.4% of these workers becoming depressed, while 6.9% of those whose jobs became more stressful over time developed depression.
Are you concerned about your stress levels at work? Take a look at these helpful tips for reducing your stress at work from our Stress Management Guide Elizabeth Scott.
If you are depressed just say out loud now
Jesus I believe and I receive you in my heart
please heal me. Remember God loves you
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Duh, Depression from Stress? Who’da thunk it?
It’s not really helpful to tell people with neuro-chemical diseases that they can get better by reciting religious speeches. If you don’t have depression you should go away and hawk your website somewhere else.
Ditto, if saying that really worked nobody would be depressed. Some people don’t have a grasp on the reality of depression.