I come across stress at work increasingly often - so much so that I have coined the term "Work Related Stress Disorder".  The usual ingredients are as follows.

• An ordinary hard-working employee who does his or her best under increasingly difficult circumstances, despite increasing demands from line managers who take advantage of the fact that the employee seems to be coping.
• An employer who is more concerned with running a business and with meeting short term goals, rather than ensuring long term quality and safety of service provision.
• A low level of meaningful dialogue and mutual trust between the workers and the managers. Failure of the employee, (often for understandable reasons), to take sensible counter-measures, e.g. going off sick frequently, taking early retirement, getting by with doing the minimum of work possible, maximising legitimate (and illegitimate) absences from the coal-face, or changing his or her job.

But Never Mind!  Relaxation 98 v1.0 is here.  It is freeware, and available on this page.   Traditional methods of stress reduction deal with the symptoms, but you can now also concentrate on the cause.  Like most simple remedies, its origins are lost in history, but I understand that Dr. Hanne van der Wel, from Whangarei, New Zealand, sent it to the U.K. as a Christmas greeting and it surfaced as a Newsgroups posting on 12th March 1998.  Just follow the simple instructions below, and you will find that your stress levels decrease dramatically.  You may need to repeat the exercise from time to time.