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A recent article from Dzone highlighted how overwork can lead to Chronic stress. The workaholic nature of IT coupled with a culture that deems late night hacking a good thing can cause problems IT workers, and the list of systems lines up perfectly with many experienced coders.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 13 2014, @09:52AM
I'm not a coder per-se, but IT infrastructure development and design is part of my ever-changing-role. I'm currently going through Stress recovery. Six months ago I just went pop; started having panic attacks, and regular anxiety attacks. My job had become a nightmare. I couldn't focus or concentrate on anything, I stopped sleeping and eating and my life just went to shit.
I was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder [wikipedia.org]. I (and many others at the firm) had been riding a 3 year roller coaster of redundancy cycles and countless managerial and policy changes, along with ever-increasing workloads and it all became too much.
I'm now coming out of it, and having counseling and medication, but boy it's been a nasty six months.
So, yeah, the job is great, the politics are not. I wouldn't recommend large scale IT to ANYONE these days.
(AC for obvious reasons)