Problem of stress is that you can't suck it up, its not physically possible, as stress is a product of maladaptation of the human endocrine system. We respond to all stressors, with roughly the same endocrine system that humans had in primal times.

I wouldn't say explicitly that peoples jobs are necessarily the cause, but that they're a major contributory factor, along with stresses induced from other factors of life (bills, family, relationships etc). To all of these things, we can only react in a primal manner, which is really is only functional for dealing with short term threats to life (essentially we sacrifice long term benefit for short term survival).

Interestingly work isn't the biggest cause of stress in peoples lives, but its the most consistent and persistent one.

As a society, we tend to only take any intervention once stress manifests as a serious problem for an individual, and then typically medicate them - Rather than deal with the problem, we deal with the symptoms.

Mental health provision is massively underfunded and patchy in the UK, without adding stress related disorders into the mix. Not to mention that long term stress results in a lot more 'lost work days' than caused by stress related sickness. A good example can be seen in how stress reduces the immune response effectiveness, resulting in a high susceptibility to communicable illnesses (which themselves cause stress).

It is realistically, one of the most prevalent health problem in the UK, and likely one of the most preventable.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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The corporate state in action. Government shirks its responsibility and in doing so distances itself from the consequences of its requirement to represent the people.

New Labour were no better. If the state isn't a means of provision of essential needs of society, then why have the government in the first place.

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Nick must be on holiday

Teachers are all turning to booze and anti-depressants say the unions. The stats say it all, I mean 43% of teachers went to the doctors in the last year.

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Although I'd imagine most people have been to the doctors in the last year, and these stories have been going on for years.

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Quite. If anyone maintained the stance that their employer was out to fcuk them over they'd be stressed too. I'd take a few extra kids in a class, representing a small percentage workload increase over having a team cut in half, which is what happens in the real world for companies to save money. I still don't understand the 'shortage' though. It's not like post are going unfilled. If anything it's a shortage of schools, which puts the focus on the real victims, the children. The junior Doctors took the right approach by at least pretending it was about patient safety.

They must be relishing the academy news in the budget, providing something else to attack the government over. If anything I'd say teachers have the least to complain about in the entire public sector.

Edited by johnfirewall (28 Mar 2016 9.09pm)

As long as the education system's run by politicians unfortunately it won't.

Indirect through friends and family who aren't union puppets and just do their jobs.

I've only ever seen the 'crisis' illustrated by way of lefty blogs and union propaganda so maybe it'd be more pertinent to give your personal experiences.