People in civil service jobs are being advised to keep calm and rational to beat stress in the workplace.
Ann Finnemore, a hypnotherapist and stress manager, who owns stress management firm Getting You There, said that stress can be linked to a number of things, including obesity, high blood pressure and infertility.
She added that it is important to develop a strategy that involves dealing with life's events calmly as stress can increase the risk of getting other diseases.
Her comments come after the Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry in Munich revealed that increased release of stress hormones in rats led to memory loss.
Ms Finnemore added that it is the way people cope with stress that is important.
"A key feature of stress is that it is not so much any particular event which results in unhealthy levels of stress, but the way in which the person deals with that stress," she explained.
"The effect on the person's physical and mental health will depend upon which outlook is adopted, not simply the existence of the event.
