w_mental_health

Mental Health in the workplace:
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85% of employees report the workplace itself affects their mental health and wellbeing. 90% agree that employers should be actively managing mental health in the workplace.
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Anxiety Symptoms:
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- Worries
- Fears
- Insomnia
- Muscle pains
- Tachycardia
- Difficulty breathing
- Stomach problems
- Headaches
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Generalized anxiety disorder:
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It is characterized by excessive worrying about daily life events. People tend to always expect the worst and can't stop worrying about things like health, money, family, work, or school.
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Access to mental health care:
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86% of job seekers respondents think that a company’s culture should support mental health at work. However, 67% of employees with mental illness report that it is challenging to access care.
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Panic attacks:
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Untreated anxiety often ends up triggering panic attacks, which are sudden episodes of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions without real danger or apparent cause.
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Anxiety and depression:
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The risk of falling into depression is much higher when an anxiety disorder already exists. Almost half of people with depression also suffer from severe and persistent anxiety.
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Mental health disorders in the workplace:
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In the U.S., there is a 20% likelihood of experiencing depression during one's lifetime, and the likelihood of experiencing anxiety is 34% Nevertheless, 42% of employees report having been formally diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the past.
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Anxiety:
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Anxiety goes beyond usual nervousness. Anxiety interferes with a person's ability to function normally. It causes them to overreact when emotional problems arise and decreases the ability to solve life's difficulties.
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Chronic depression:
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Persistent depressive disorder, also called dysthymia, is a form of chronic depression that can last for years. People with dysthymia often lose interest in daily life activities, feel hopeless, sad, and often have low self-esteem.
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Access to mental health care:
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70% of employees report challenges accessing mental healthcare. The most commonly reported barriers are lack of insurance coverage, difficulty determining covered services, not knowing which resources are available, difficulty finding providers, and long wait times to get appointments.
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Nervousness versus anxiety:
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Nervousness is a natural response to a stressful event. It is temporary and disappears once the stress has passed. Anxiety produces intense feelings of worry for no apparent reason. It is recurring and uncontrollable without treatment.
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Anxiety:
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Anxiety produces physical symptoms at the cardiovascular level that include arrhythmias, palpitations, tachycardia, low blood pressure, chest pain, etc. These symptoms are stronger when the person is upset.
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Depression:
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Men with depression tend to have a higher rate of feeling irritable, angry, and discouraged. This can make it harder to recognize depression in men.
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Stress in the Workplace:
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Stress can lead to severe physical health problems, such as immunodeficiency disorders, cardiovascular disease,and a reduced ability to recover from illness.
Chronic exposure to stressful workplace conditions can lead to depression, anxiety, an inability to concentrate, and emotional exhaustion.
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Mental Health:
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A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
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Anxiety:
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Feeling anxious from time to time is normal. However, people with anxiety disorders often have intense, excessive, and persistent worries and fears. They may even have repeated episodes of panic attacks.
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Depression:
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Many factors may cause a depressive state such as mood regulation problems in the brain, genetic vulnerability, stressful or traumatic events, life dissatisfaction, medical conditions, and problems at home or work.
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Anxiety in the workplace:
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30% of working adults with an anxiety disorder report reduced work productivity over the previous four weeks, while a mere 0.5% of working adults without a mental illness report the same. Workers with anxiety disorders have more than 1.5 times the risk of being absent for at least two weeks than those without anxiety.
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Chronic stress:
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Chronic stress is not a normal condition nor should we resign to live with it. When a person has chronic stress, the continuous activation of the biological process that produces stress harms the body, producing physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms.
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Causes of anxiety:
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Anxiety is often the result of stress or feeling overwhelmed. Common causes of anxiety include: job pressure, financial troubles, family or relationship problems, divorce, bereavement, receiving a diagnosis of a chronic health condition, etc.
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Causes of depression:
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Little-known causes that can cause depression: smoking, thyroid problems, not getting enough sleep, spending a lot of time on social media, poor eating habits, birth control pills, magnesium and vitamin D deficiencies, alcohol abuse.
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Employees and mental distress:
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Employees experiencing mental distress are two-and-a-half times more likely to be admitted to a hospital than non-distressed employees and are almost twice as likely to be treated in the emergency department than non-distressed employees.
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Stress:
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Even if you don't realize it, stress may be affecting your health. You may think that some illness is to blame for your headaches, your frequent insomnia, or your decreased productivity at work; but the cause may be stress.
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Anxiety:
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It is a normal response to a threat or a situation of psychological stress. However, it is considered a disorder when it occurs at inappropriate times, when it occurs frequently, and when it is of such intensity and duration that it affects the person's daily activities.
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Depression:
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In a depressive episode, the person experiences a depressed mood (sadness, irritability, a feeling of emptiness) or a loss of enjoyment or interest in activities, most of the day, almost every day, for at least two weeks.
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The cost of mental health:
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Mental illness at work cost companies money directly for treatment expenses and indirectly, and more expensively, from increased healthcare expenditures, turnover, and diminished productivity
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What is Stress?
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Stress is the way your brain and body respond to a challenge or demand. When you're stressed, your body releases hormones, which can raise your blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar levels.
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Anxiety Symptoms:
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Excessive worrying,
fears, tension,
insomnia,
tachycardia,
muscle aches,
stomach problems,
difficulty breathing.
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Persistent Depressive Disorder:
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It is characterized by a chronic depressive mood of moderate intensity that lasts for more than two years. It may be caused by a traumatic event such as losing a job, having a loved one die, experiencing a crime or going through a breakup.
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