{"id":20380,"date":"2019-10-10T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T10:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=20380"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T10:06:21","slug":"world-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/world-mental-health-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mental Health Day: Workplace and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#c5acbe;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #c5acbe;\">Mental Health and the Workplace: World Mental Health Day<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#c5acbe;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>World Mental Health Day<\/strong> is celebrated on the 10<sup>th<\/sup> of October. Its main goal is to\u00a0sensitise the public about mental\u00a0illnesses. There are more than 200 forms of mental issues, some of them include problems like anxiety, depression phobias and paranoia. A mental illness impacts someone\u2019s behaviour, their way of thinking and their emotions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around <strong>300 million<\/strong> people are living with depression. In the European Union only, <strong>165 million <\/strong>people suffer from a mental disorder. Studies show that at least <strong>50%<\/strong> of the population will suffer from it during a\u00a0period of their lives and that by 2030, mental health problems are going to be the principal cause of mortality worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is crucial that <strong>companies<\/strong> are aware of their important role in mental health problems. An average person will spend\u00a013 years and two months of his life working, as reported by\u00a0HuffPost\u00a0Australia.\u00a0Fear of <strong>discrimination<\/strong> and <strong>shame<\/strong> are the most common reasons people do not talk\u00a0about mental issues in the workplace.\u00a0In a recent study conducted by Mynurva app, <strong>49%<\/strong> of people revealed that they did not have a proper working environment to talk\u00a0about their mental health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mental illnesses can also have other impacts on a working environment. A WHO study showed that,\u00a0mental illness costs the global economy around <strong>1 trillion dollars<\/strong> per year. Ignoring the of mental health issues can have high costs and <strong>indirect\/invisible costs<\/strong> are the highest. They are related to deaths or suicides, loss of productivity and early retirement. Mental health issues can also affect productivity, physical capacity, communication and even work performance. It is fundamental to apply <strong>strategies\u00a0<\/strong>in the workplace to tackle this problem. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Educating\u00a0the working force, so they can\u00a0identify signs related to mental health problems<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Doing mental health check-ups to workers regularly<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Flexible working hours<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Respecting the working hours and the holiday period, as a way for workers to rest and recover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Promoting physical\u00a0and\u00a0relaxing\u00a0activities for the teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Being aware\u00a0of harassment and humiliating\u00a0situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Supporting and encouraging a work-life balance, to separate work and personal life<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Make the employee feel like they are part of the decision-making process and that they are involved in the team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 25px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #c5acbe;\"> \u2666<\/span> Coaching or Mentoring can also be an effective way to signal these problems, given that it can be a way to know employees, tackle emotional issues and resolve motivational problems among teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>employer<\/strong> and <strong>Human Resources <\/strong>are in a privileged position to introduce and implement\u00a0innovative policies,\u00a0like those we mentioned before.\u00a0Investing in this matter is a win-win situation for both parts, the employee and the employer. WHO\u00a0estimates\u00a0that a <strong>$1<\/strong> invested in the fight against mental illness generates a return of <strong>$4<\/strong> in mental health <strong>improvement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We see more and more companies concerned with the welfare of workers and it is important that this tendency continues. To create healthy workplaces, the workforce must collaborate to improve wellbeing and health at work. Mental Health needs to receive\u00a0the <strong>importance<\/strong> it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How to support mental health at work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/publications\/how-support-mental-health-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mental health in the workplace, May 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/mental_health\/in_the_workplace\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Health Organization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/health\/sites\/health\/files\/mental_health\/docs\/compass_2017workplace_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health In The Workplace In Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How To Create A Workplace That Supports Mental Health, November 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alankohll\/2018\/11\/27\/how-to-create-a-workplace-that-supports-mental-health\/#639460ddda78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}