And here are some stats from the HSE website.
"The total number of cases of stress in 2010/11 was 400 000 out of a total of
1 152 000 for all work-related illnesses."
( Thats 35% of all work related illnesses ) Thats a lot of people to simply turn their back on their job to avoid stress and not what I would want to advise the thread starter, Steve.
"The industries that reported the highest rates of work-related stress in the last three years were health, social work, education and public administration."
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/cau...ress/index.htm