“PsicoLan, protect and improve your emotional health at work”

How can the mind be trained?

This is an ability that people have, and we bring it with us as a standard. It is precisely our ability to learn. Toni Nadal will start the Health and Safety at Work Conference organized by the San Prudencio Foundation, next Tuesday with this proposal, everything can be learned. And that is that we have that ability to constantly learn. How do we train ourselves? Spontaneously we do this in everyday life. And in a thoughtful way, we can do this once we decide that we have a need that leads us to learn or a goal for something we want to achieve or something we want to change. At that moment, the person takes action to change. This change will occur at the level of action, thought and emotion. And it will happen at the same time, if a change occurs in one area, a change occurs in all of them at the same time. We are a system.

How is it easier to achieve the goal and achieve change?

Starting with work. The action is in our own hands, and it directly depends on us to act or stop acting to achieve our goal. Once we initiate this action or inaction, a change in our thoughts and feelings will also occur.

There is more and more absenteeism due to poor stress management, what tools do you offer to learn how to manage it?

In fact, absenteeism due to non-serious mental health problems is the second reason for sick leave in Europe, after musculoskeletal disorders, the number one. Fortunately, within those mental health problems that cause people to lose their ability to function, which is the loss of an important part of their health, anxiety problems are found in the first place. Anxiety is the effect that occurs when there is a state of stress due to an overload. Stress in itself is not bad, it is necessary. Let’s say it’s the spice of life, which allows us to move around from day to day and face the remnants in a natural way. When an excess of stress occurs, a person appreciates that the demands he has in the course of work or reconciling the context of his work and family life, exceed his ability to deal with them, that is, when discomfort occurs. Symptoms of anxiety are characterized by nervousness, irritability, rapid response, sweating, shortness of breath, etc. All this happens when this act becomes chronic in which the person feels that the demands are beyond his ability to respond. What is there to do? Stop and reassess, knowing what I have to do and what I can do today. You have to learn to prioritize. And if I don’t arrive on my own, ask for help in the work environment Who May Concern.

Why are we more stressed today than our ancestors?

I don’t know if we are more nervous than before or not. What has changed is the current pace. The current tempo is mediated instantaneously and sometimes by temporal acceleration. This rhythm is not normal with our chronobiology. In other words, we have a biological clock that has been operating for centuries and adapts to sunlight, and it has something to do with these cycles. In our current way of life, we skip these biological rhythms and force ourselves, and I think this causes us emotional discomfort.

How much time and personal work is required to overcome a stressful episode?

The time and personal action needed to face and overcome the stressful bout will depend on the person because in the same situation some people act with appropriate coping, and others are overwhelmed. It should be noted that rest is necessary to restore the level of strength and energy that a person needs to continue his or her life in a healthy and adequate manner. In case of work stress due to constant overload, stop and seek support.

Why is it important to make this issue visible at conferences like Tuesday?

There are many reasons why it is important to make the problem visible, and above all the solutions, for the emotional health of workers. Psychosocial risks and prevention have gained prominence after the pandemic, and companies have taken care of the health and well-being of their workers because losing their health means losing their productive capacity. The suggestion is to focus and focus on the health of the working person to make the situation visible and normalize the need to seek help.

What steps will be taken from PsicoLan?

Our main horizon and development is for PsicoLan to reach more Alava working people. More than 400 Alava San Prudencio companies provide service, support, and assistance to their workers. We provide this service which is very favorably received by companies. We still have a lot to grow, it’s our challenge and we hope to keep testing how it works and what we must change to improve it. Our service is already active, after a period of over a year of experience during which we have tested and verified the results, so far satisfactory. PsicoLan is a health assistance service whose goal is to respond to emotional health causes that arise in both the workplace and the person. It proposes solutions, concise, simple, with evidence-based psychotherapy, in coordination with health professionals in the workplace to restore health as quickly as possible.

How to determine a healthy workplace?

A healthy workplace is the workplace where the importance of the health of the working person is at the center, and this includes maintaining the ability to work, with constant attention to and protection of emotional health. This is our main goal at Psicolan.