Each week we publish blog posts on a whole range of topics, relating in some way to mental health — written by Mind staff, service users and health and policy professionals. Some blog posts may not reflect official Mind policy.
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Despite achieving success in her job and having the support of an understanding manager, our guest blogger Natalie still finds the need to put on a brave face at work.
2 CommentsThis is a guest blog from Jenny on how almost anyone could experience mental health problems, unemployment and face the challenges of the welfare system.
The warped standards with which the society judges those on sickness benefits sets us all up for a miserable and self-loathing experience of unemployment.
My behaviour and self-esteem were not entirely ‘normal’ from about 12 years old. Difficult events plus a predisposition towards depression has meant life has often been a rollercoaster of trying to cope. However, a degree and jobs which fed my confidence confounded psychiatrists’ predictions that I’d only ever manage part-time low-stress work. Then recession hit my area of work badly, and following my second redundancy I spent two years unemployed.
25 CommentsThis guest blog from Bernadette is part of our series on mental health at work and Mind's Taking care of business campaign.
Coming from a family where both sides have experienced mental distress ranging from severe depression to dementia, psychosis and suicide. It could be argued that it was inevitable that I could succumb to some form of mental distress in my life. This is indeed what happened.
11 CommentsThis guest blog is part of our series on mental health at work for Mind's Taking care of business campaign.
Teresa*, a communications specialist for a large retail organisation returned to work in February after a brief stay in hospital. Two days later, a colleague asked how she was feeling.
1 CommentThis guest blog is part of a series on mental health at work; for our Taking care of business campaign.
I work in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) clinic. On my caseload are kids who may be starving themselves, who are self-harming or suicidal, who may be subject to child protection concerns. Many of them come to us with a complex mix of psychiatric, social, family and educational problems. That combination of risk and complexity makes it difficult, stressful work.