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Is your job killing you?
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\nHave you ever been asked to donate to a “Stop Job\u00a0Stress\u00a0From Killing Us” walkathon?
\nMaybe besides fundraising for research into diseases like cancer and muscular dystrophy, we should also focus on\u00a0reversing the damage done by unhealthy work environments.
\nThe\u00a0Atlantic’s recent article, “The Alarming, Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Stress”<\/a> got me with this subhead:\u00a0Health problems associated with job-related anxiety account for more deaths each year than Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes.<\/strong>
\nWow.
\nGillian B. White writes:<\/p>\n

A 2015 working paper from Harvard and Stanford Business Schools<\/a> takes a look at 10 common job stressors: from lack of health insurance, to long working hours, to job insecurity. Researchers then considered how the mental and physical effects of these forms of stress related to mortality. The paper found that health problems stemming from job stress, like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and decreased mental health, can lead to fatal conditions that wind up killing about 120,000 people each year\u2014making work-related stressors and the maladies they cause, more deadly than diabetes, Alzheimer\u2019s, or influenza.
\nHigh levels of stress are costly in monetary terms, too. Researchers found that stress-related health problems could be responsible for between 5 to 8 percent of annual health care costs in the U.S. That amounts to about $180 billion each year in health care expenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’ve been feeling that your job is eating you alive, it might actually be true.
\nWhite notes, for example:<\/p>\n