If you feel overwhelmed by anxiety at work – or anywhere else – there are practical strategies to help and experts to turn to.

Work can be stressful at the best of times but add to that the everyday pressures of life, against a backdrop of rising costs, uncertainty and turmoil and it’s easy for anxiety to become unmanageable. It can make you feel ill – both physically and mentally – and lead to a situation where you simply don’t know where to turn.

If this strikes a chord, you are not alone. One in seven people experience mental health problems in the workplace, according to a government-commissioned report, and around 8% of all sickness absence days in the UK can be attributed to mental health conditions.

Nick Elston, a leading public speaker on the experience of mental health, says fostering good mental health isn’t something you should leave to chance. Like physical health, it is something we can exercise, nurture and care for every day, even if it’s in between periods of medication or help, or therapy.

“It’s about doing everything that we can do to give ourselves the best chance of thriving – but also knowing that we do not live in a Disney movie and there are times when we will get knocked off our feet and not everything’s going to be rosy. But how do we bounce back when we need it the most?” Elston asks.

If you feel your mental health declining, you may find the tips in the ICAEW article useful. To read the article in full click here.