A web developer named Madalyn Parker, who has written that she suffers from anxiety and depression, wrote an email to her colleagues saying she'd be out for a couple of days to focus on my mental health. Her story has since went viral.
Surveys by the American Psychological Association's Center for Organizational Excellence show that less than half of Americans (44 percent) say they believe the climate in their organization supports well-being, and that nearly 20 percent of employees say the challenges of their jobs were harder to handle in the past month due to mental health issues such as depression or anxiety.
Studies have shown that mental health issues such as depression and mental illnesses had the third-highest annual per-employee costs from lost productivity while at work, up there with arthritis, hypertension, allergy, headaches and diabetes. The estimated productivity cost to working while sick is far more than the costs businesses endure when people are out of work.
How do you feel about mental health? Do you suffer from it and how do you deal with it?
Ive personally had problem with mental illness too. But due to a perceived stigma from friends and co workers I would just call in sick and use sick days. There needs to be more of an awareness to mental health. Dealing with mental illness is tough as it is, it should be much easier to come forward to seek help or just ask for some time to yourself to regroup with out the stigma. Some people just need a day or two with their thoughts.
Madalyn Parker's story~
https://twitter.com/madalynrose
https://medium.com/@madalynrose/overcoming-mental-health-hurdles-at-work-ed0b135e21c8
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