The modern workplace is a diverse, fast-paced environment fraught with challenges and potential problems. Your job is to live each day to the best of your ability and achieve your goals. Considering how much time you spend at work throughout your life, it would be surprising if you weren't occasionally overcome by anxiety, self-doubt, anger, guilt, confusion and a general feeling of unhappiness. Fortunately, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was designed to help you reduce this kind of stress and uncertainty. In a sense, CBT helps you become your own therapist as you use its techniques to make sense of and overcome your anxious feelings. With CBT, you learn to recognize at what point a situation becomes difficult and affects your emotional state. You can then apply CBT techniques to actively work to reduce the intensity of your disturbing emotions. Think of CBT as helping you become the world's best expert on yourself! Your new inner voice challenges your irrational thinking, allowing you to decide whether you should change the way you think about work, other people, and your employer to reduce anxiety. How to Cope with Functional Change at Work The workspace is an ever-changing environment. People have always been concerned with finding ways to survive and cope with the diversification of jobs, whether they work on the land, in communities and villages, or in specialized offices. Perhaps you yourself have worked in different places and have had to adapt and relearn as you go need to fit into a variety of job specialties. In fact, these days, being flexible and having a variety of experiences and skills is often seen as an advantage rather than a sign that you can't stick to one job. For example, before I became a professional psychologist, worked in completely different fields. I had the opportunity to work as a courier, a cold calling sales manager, a private school administrator, a translator, an English teacher and much more. Which I am incredibly happy about, because such a diverse experience now helps me see more broadly and better understand the problems of my clients. The great thing about CBT strategies and skills is that you can apply them to any situations in which people work today, from a small store to the outskirts of a small town to a large multinational corporation in a metropolitan area. Workplace Stress Workplace stress is a fairly familiar phrase in the modern world, and its negative impact on mental and physical health has been well studied. Therefore, developing skills that will help you cope with stress is a priority. External factors, such as changes in the market economy affecting companies and leading to layoffs, layoffs and business closures, are not a reflection of your individual performance at work, but factors beyond your control. Take control of your emotions You cannot control many of the situations you encounter at work, including the bosses and managers you work under or the people on your team. But you can take control of how these factors affect you. Feelings of helplessness and depression can be a reaction to feeling stuck in a difficult situation. At first, you may experience feelings of anxiety, butterflies in your stomach, and fear about going to work, and then fear turns into panic. This anxiety can cause you to make more mistakes and make your feelings worse. As a result, you may feel like you're on a downward spiral of incompetence and your self-esteem plummets. The good news is that CBT can help you learn to take charge.)