Executives and Managers Under Pressure
With the global economic crisis and the concomitant pressures on those managers who succeed in being retained rather than pink-slipped, many executives are funding themselves in a state of burnout or depression.
Private clinics in particular are registering strong increases in managers and executives suffering mental problems as a result of the difficult period. Informally, commentators are citing a 50% increase in the lake Geneva region of managers checking into clinics for depression-related treatment.
In several lakeside clinics, special units have been opened within the facilities to treat managers, traders, executives, and directors.
Paramedical staff say that in this period, they are witnessing a sense of helplessness, disorientation and confusion among managers, a group of professionals for whom competence and performance is usually tightly benchmarked. With the advent of the global financial 
crisis and resulting corporate downsizing and increased competition for the remaining business, executives are discovering their environment completely changed and they often find themselves powerless. A sense of seep fatigue often overtakes them and they don’t see it coming until they are already deep into it. Medical staff talk of the loss of reference points.
The degree of stress varies from person to person and thus so do the therapies proposed.
Sometimes, coaching can suffice for problems of a simple nature. Often, the executive need to be hospitalized. According to one clinic’s medical director, “managers can often develop high risk behavior such as substance abuse, cyber-addiction, or frenzied multiplication of sexual partners. The goal of treatment is just to ease them back into their
professional environment.
Increasingly, there are cases that are requiring long term treatment.
