Have you seen anyone break under stress at office?

ha ha!! really funny! i have nothing like yours,cause i don't see stress and don't take it also

I worked in a call center and saw a couple of people at different times being carried out. It is difficult to assess because stress also comes from life style. One person lost himself in the washroom and broke some of the things in there. Another started yelling in the parking lot and I did something strange for me because everything was getting to me. I put my head on my desk one shift and started sobbing uncontrollably but yet still able to try not to let others become aware of it. Though work stress was there - like I had someone threaten my life on the phone if I did not fix his problem for example, for me it was an accumulation of everything work and personal. One thing I do remember, was to do with the odd hours shift work, whereby I never had a weekend off or an evening other than empty monday's and tuesdays which made everything appear to me as upsidedown? I began not to be able to distinguish between home life, social life and work life as it all merged into one. Thus life became stressful without proper outlets until I finally realized I had reached a limit and needed to address it.

OMG. i have not seen anything like this. i would be petrified seeing someone break like that. what to do? what to do? is what i'll ask myself in panic. i just hope that i can gather up myself if faced with such a situation so that i can help.

I have not had such experience in office. When you said horrible experience I thought of gheraos , strikes. My cousin who was chief manager of a bank was gheraoed for three days by the staff about three decades back. Yes. stress in personal and official work will bring psychiatric problems. They should take the medicines prescribed. Any of us can be affected by that any time --depends on God's grace on us.

Wow, that is really horrible. maybe that man get too high pressure from the company where he work. maybe he just get a bad comment and he get a bad reputation. an environment of company really influence their employers. many of them become stress, in deep depression, and many more because of the pressure and the trouble in the company is so high. i think we have to take care ourselves from something like this. everyday i try to relax in working, trying to thinking to positively everyday. it can decrease the possibility to getting stresses.

Yes, it is indeed terrible to see a person who is normally quiet and well-mannered, suddenly lost himself and became horribly wrong. I had a colleague many years ago when during lunch break, he went out of the office and to a public park nearby. He used a stick to hit the cars parking there, shouting uncontrollably. A police who was at the scene stopped him but couldn't calmed him down. My colleague kept shouting on the top of his voice but with no meanings. It sounded like a howling. So the policeman chained him with a handcuff to a iron fence and called for a petrol car to come. It is a sickening sight to see someone who is good and quiet to change into a howling animal handcuffed to a fence under the hot sun. He was later taken to hospital and his family told us that he had been under a lot of pressure lately. He never returned to work again and it seems he has lost himself forever.