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Name: Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
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Author: Gill Hasson, Donna Butler

Gill Hasson, Donna Butler

A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees

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What’s in it for me? Feel better at work.

The working world is often stressful. And let’s be honest: we all have days in the office when we don’t feel our best. But what happens when these days turn into weeks, months, or even years, and the stress starts to feel overwhelming?

If this sounds familiar, then you might be dealing with more than just stress. You could be experiencing a mental-health issue.

But if you are, then you’re not alone. Many of us will struggle with common mental-health issues, such as depression and anxiety, in our lifetimes. And often these issues have their roots, but also their solution, in our working conditions.

These blinks can help you on your journey toward better well-being in the workplace. Packed with mental-health insights, they’re a valuable source of advice for both employees and organizations.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to achieve better work-life balance;
why you should keep a thought diary; and
how managers can help employees struggling with mental-health issues.

The first step to mental well-being is knowing what it looks like.

What does well-being mean to you? Perhaps you equate it with physical health – with being free of aches and pains, with eating healthily and exercising frequently. And it’s true: wellness and physical health go hand in hand. But real well-being is as much about the mind as it is about the body. To be completely healthy, we must also achieve optimal mental health.

So how do we define good mental health?

Good mental health means feeling fairly confident and having decent self-esteem. It means being comfortable with experiencing a full range of emotions, from joy to anger to sadness, and everything in-between. It also means being comfortable with expressing these emotions. More broadly, good mental health means that you’re able to reach your full potential, without being held back by your own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

The key message here is: The first step to mental well-being is knowing what it looks like.

One key aspect of good mental health is your ability to maintain positive relationships with other people. When life becomes problem-filled and stressful, these relationships provide a place of comfort and support – a place that can help you deal with the demands of daily life.

Research shows that one in four people in the UK will experience a mental illness at some point in their lives. But despite the prevalence of mental ill-health, it often goes undetected by the person’s family, friends, coworkers, and even by the person experiencing it.

This may be because people aren’t sure what poor mental health actually looks like. Which is why it’s important to familiarize yourself with some of the typical symptoms of mental-health problems. These symptoms include feeling more distressed and upset than usual. For instance, you may find yourself crying more than usual. You might also experience abrupt mood swings for no discernible reason, or find yourself behaving aggressively or erratically.

Another indicator of poor mental health involves withdrawing from other people. Perhaps you find yourself reluctant to make plans with anyone, and you no longer enjoy socializing or doing the things that you used to love.

Other symptoms include problems sleeping, to the point where you feel constantly exhausted. You might also experience bodily aches and pains that have no rational or physical explanation.

Unfortunately, your workplace is often responsible for these symptoms of stress. In the following blinks, you’ll discover the threats to your mental health at work, and how you and your employer can minimize them.

Mental well-being at work depends on several key areas.

What makes a job great? Ask a room full of different people and you’ll get a room’s worth of different answers. This person will emphasize the importance of a high salary, that person will stress the value of career-progression opportunities, and that person over there will say it’s all about having friendly coworkers. In short, there’s no single combination of elements that will make everyone happy at work. However, there is a basic recipe that will help everyone be healthy at work.

The key message here is: Mental well-being at work depends on several key areas.

Leaders need to take action to improve their employees’ well-being.

How can business leaders empower their employees to reach their full potential? It all starts with promoting mental well-being in the office. But although many leaders want to help their staff feel good at work, many aren’t sure where to begin. If this sounds familiar then don’t worry – you don’t need to have all the answers just yet. All you need to do is listen to your staff and learn from them.

Gaining an initial understanding of how your staff feel is crucial, because if you don’t know what the problems are, then you won’t be able to solve them.

Better mental health starts with a better work-life balance.

The actions of your employer can have a big impact on your mental well-being. But if you’re an employee, you don’t need to wait for your boss to act on well-being initiatives. You can do it, too! Once you claim control of the hours in your day, you’ll hopefully start to see a transformation in how you feel.

The core of a good work-life balance is having enough time to devote to your personal needs and interests, while also being able to stick to your work commitments. Attending to your personal life, such as your friendships, hobbies, and exercise routine, is important because it's this sphere of your life that helps you to cope with the daily stresses of work.

Managers can help struggling employees by co-creating a wellness action plan.

If you’re a manager, then chances are that someone on your team will experience mental-health difficulties at some point. Although it can be tough to know what to do in such a situation, rest assured that taking any well-intentioned action is usually better than doing nothing at all.

It may be fairly easy to spot people who are dealing with some issues. They’re often tearful or withdrawn in meetings, or they take a lot of days off work. In some cases, they frequently argue with their coworkers. They may even explicitly tell you that they’ve been diagnosed with a mental-health problem.

You can find your mental health triggers by beginning a thought diary.

When you have a problem with your mental health, it’s normal to feel helpless. It might even feel like you’ll never feel OK again. But when you find yourself experiencing a dip in your mental health, remember that there are things you can do to help yourself return to an even keel.

Although mental-health problems can take you by surprise, most issues arise from certain triggers. Something happens, either at work or in your personal life, that causes that first downward spiral. So it can be helpful to identify what your particular mental-health triggers are so that you can prevent yourself from experiencing them, and so avoid a decline in your well-being.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace (2020) explains how both organizations and individuals can promote better mental health at work. The authors explore the causes and effects of poor mental health in the office and shed light on the path back to wellness.

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Über den Autor

Donna Butler is an integrative psychotherapist and trauma specialist who has worked for over 30 years within the UK’s National Health Service. Gill Hasson, an author, has written over 20 books on personal development, mental health, and well-being.

© Gill Hasson, Donna Butler: Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace copyright 2020, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Used by permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc. and shall not be made available to any unauthorized third parties.

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