Tell us: have you ever felt like Larry? How has your work affected your #MentalHealth? Today WHO launched the 🆕 recommended guidelines to protect #MentalHealthAtWork. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3fpWgsb
I have great respect for people who suffer but don't give up. When your world is crumbling and you dont recognize yourself; you're given the strength to keep going. It's sad to me that the entire world had to shut down for the discussion of personal mental Illness to become a open and accepted conversation, at home, at work, at school. We no longer have to hide. We realize we are not alone. We are not morally inferior. We can ask for help without fear of feeling weak. We move towards mental wellness. Best wishes to all.
Your story makes me wonder, how far the source of problems is common pressure in corporations for communication correctness ... Instead of explicit message like - You do not fit here. It does not work. Please find another job. You have 1 or 2 months plus standard notice time. Now we seat and try to find the best temporary use of your talents for this period, etc. Isnt it better, for both sides, than hiding this message in nice words and trying to communicate the merit via day after day organizational acrobatics which can take years, generating loses on both sides again.
Mental Health needs more concern compared to physical health. If you have any problem with physical health, there will some signs and symptoms but in case of mental health doesn’t show any vital signs. I have been through this phase like Larry but I managed myself to balance it. This is where the work life balance comes into the play. A proper work life balance must be there to have good physical and mental health.
Mental health is the most appreciated illness I respect.Because no one now what you face.Im be diagnosed is Schizophrenia and I love who I am.You get to a stage were you connect with the netrual and spiritual demension.I love it.To be in control of different types of spirits.Someone with a mental health will always defeat his challenges.Thanks God for who I am really.I am the best that my God created me.
Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful experience of the cancer in society today... Also congratulations for being an advocate.
Toxic work environments exist and the fact that you're spending the majority of your life in these places has a severe impact on your mental health. I know many of us don't have the freedom to just up and leave the jobs we have, but please try find a better space for you. On this #WorldMentalHealthDay - please take care of you. And then work on making that a habit 💜🌹
A previous job of mine caused me to have to start taking anti-anxiety medication just so I could get 4 hours of sleep at night. #mentalhealthmatters
What a powerful piece. Thank you. Your gift to the rest of us of what it means to have the strength to be vulnerable is the most generous act of caring that I’ve witnessed in a long, long time.
Educational Developer | Researcher | Advanced Graduate Student - EdD | Global Mental Health Peer Network Country Executive Committee Canada Representative
1yThank you to the WHO for picking up and sharing my story. While the human inside me is cringing and waiting for the fallout, the educator in me says "WOOHOO! You found your voice!"