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In the fifties you’d have suffered with your nerves and got told to pull yourself together. In the sixties you’d have seen your doctor and been given Valium. In the seventies you were told you were uptight and the cure was to become more laid-back. In the eighties we were diagnosed as suffering from stress and executive burn-out and marinated in aromatherapy oils while we cogitated in our flotation tanks.

Stress is still very much the buzzword of the nineties workplace. Its symptoms are so comfortingly diverse it lends itself to effortless self-diagnosis. You lose your temper? Stress. Forget to do something important? Stress. Have a headache? Stress. Hair-loss, over-eating, spots, gross stupidity, sweating, screaming, weeping or impotence can all nestle beneath the banner of stress-induced symptoms.