Ms. Zhang graduated from college and joined a foreign company, and her youth and high salary were always envied. now, more than 10 years later, her heart is heavy and she has to worry about her future. She wanted to find a stable job in state-owned enterprises or institutions, but almost all the recruitment conditions required “under 35 years old”. The company’s main goal is to provide a more efficient and effective way to improve the quality of its services.
Middle-aged white-collar workers are not the only ones suffering from this condition. The company’s newest product is a new product that will be available in the marketplace every year, so some young people are starting to worry about getting older. The more so, the more nervous, psychological age will unconsciously really become old. These people often feel fatigued, unresponsive, less energetic, less adaptable, and often in a state of anxiety, irritability, boredom, and helplessness, and feel tired of living.
Psychological responses:
Age panic disorder is a psychological phenomenon as well as a social phenomenon. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. If you do not want to sit and wait for that day, change yourself, relax, learn more knowledge, self “recharge”, this is the most important. If you work hard, you will definitely have a second spring in your life career.
Career “confusion”: the self-development confusion that many people experience
There are at least four periods in a person’s career when he or she can easily fall into the confusion of “not recognizing the path of development “
There are at least four periods in a person’s career when they are easily confused about their path:
The first period is from 14-22 years old, when people assume the dual role of student and job seeker. The main questions are: Who am I? What can I do? The main reason for confusion is lack of self-confidence and social experience.
The second period is 22-28 years old, when people are entering the workforce, getting to know society and building their initial network of contacts. After working for a while, they begin to re-evaluate whether everything around them, such as the work environment, the type of career, the pay, etc., matches their “career dreams. The main question is: Do I have to choose again because the ideal does not match with the reality? The main reason for confusion is that personal goals are not aligned with the current situation and opportunities offered by the organization.
The third period is 28-35 years old, an important stage in one’s career development. People at this stage have accumulated more experience, their talents have been used to some extent, and they are laying the foundation for promotion or entering other career fields. The main question is: Why have I not achieved anything for so many years? The main reason for the confusion is frustration at work and dissatisfaction with the current job.
The fourth period is 35-45 years old, when people begin to reassess the value of their careers and are prone to career crises. The main question is: What should I do in the next few years? The reason for this confusion is that they have had a lot of life experience and have a deeper understanding of the finite nature of life and the vagaries of the world, so it is difficult to make a rash decision about where to go in the future.
Psychological response: People have different goals and needs at different stages of their lives, and it’s important to figure out what you need when you’re at a career loss. This requires a calm analysis and objective judgment of yourself and the situation, as well as the courage, confidence and determination to overcome the current temporary difficulties and strive for a better future.
“Self-compulsion”: the price you pay for perfection
The patient’s mind repeatedly has a certain thought or repeatedly does some stereotypical action that the patient does not think is necessary and is very distressed by it, with a strong desire to The patient has a strong desire to get rid of it, but is unable to do anything about it. 75% of patients have a slow onset before the age of 30, and it can affect their quality of life and ability to work to varying degrees.
Common obsessive-compulsive symptoms include:
1. For example, when you go out, you wonder if the door is locked, check it again and again, walk downstairs and still don’t feel comfortable enough to come back.
2. Compulsive exhaustive thinking: repeated thoughts about some natural phenomena in daily life, knowing that they lack meaning, but unable to control themselves.
3. Compulsive association: When an idea appears or a phrase comes to mind, it is involuntarily associated with another idea or phrase.
4. Obsessive-compulsive intent: A strong inner urge to do something against one’s will, knowing that it is absurd and impossible, but unable to get rid of the urge. People with the disease are mostly related to their own personalities, such as they hold themselves to high standards, pursue perfection in their work, repeatedly check afterwards, and are demanding of details. They are too self-restrained, self-focused, and overly cautious. For this reason, they are often anxious, nervous and distressed. In addition, the disorder is associated with genetics, altered biochemicals in the body, and certain structural changes in the brain.
Psychological countermeasures:
If it is only related to personality and psychological factors, then trying to enhance self-regulation will have good results. The work should learn to be relaxed, open-minded and cheerful, and learn to give up some things that cannot be pursued. If it is difficult to do so, you can seek the help of a psychologist to get their help.
The competition in the workplace is a competition of “hardware” and “software”. Unfortunately, the focus is often on building the “hardware” (e.g., training certifications everywhere), but not on building a sound mental state for people, relieving psychological disorders, and improving the quality of “emotional intelligence”. In fact, good psychological quality is the indispensable foundation of career, in addition to the workplace “heart disease”, each workplace people can really “put down the burden, start the machine”.