Workaholics more likely to suffer from psychiatric disorders

27 May 2016 - 09:16
By AZIZZAR MOSUPI

Being an overachiever may benefit you in the grander scheme of things but in the work space it is found frequently to co-occur with psychiatric disorders. A recent study by the University of Bergen, Nottingham Trent University and Yale University found that workaholism can co-occur with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression.

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