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Email overload: How a full inbox affects your mental health, and what you can do to take back control
It’s a feeling most of us will have experienced at some point: you arrive at work in the morning and open your email client only to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unread messages staring back at you.
In this episode we catch up with Dr Emma Russell, a psychologist based at the University of Sussex.
She tells us about the far-reaching effects dealing with a constant stream of emails can have on our mental health, why some of us are more prone to these negative effects than others, and how we can take back control.
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