Lack of control, job insecurity cause stress
James Aw, medical director of the Medcan Clinic in Toronto, recently saw a patient, a financial industry executive, whose company merged with an investment firm. The firm featured executives who were “high-octane, Type-A guys who really hustled,” the patient told Aw, while his company moved a bit more slowly. To deal with the stress surrounding the merger, the executive spent more late nights at work, drank more, stopped exercising and slept less, he said.
