toAST, new characters have shown that one in four youth in England has a mental health condition. The unwillingness to study the difficult social and economic conditions – from the lack of housing to financial concerns – means that there can be a tendency to explain this rise as a result of excessive diagnosis, although there are few evidence of this claim. Doctors cite the diagnostic criteria to show that excessive reporting is not supported – if there is anything, the intensity of the reported conditions has increased, and this is partly due to the decrease in the stigma, which led to the request of more people.
Young people who suffer from poor mental health are Almost five times It is more likely that it is outside the work, and there is an increasing understanding of insufficient support for the mental health of young people in the workplace leads them to Leave or think about leaving their work. In response, the government suggested discounts Health support under 22 years.
Although there is no evidence that removing financial support motivates people to return to work, there are things that we can change to make the workplaces more healthy environments – and for times when things are not fine, until mental health is absorbed and supported.
Often the virtual workplaces of fear, competition, “everyone for themselves” and weak confidence among colleagues. In this context, it is dangerous to recognize the struggle with your mental health, and there is still a tendency to see these conflicts as a transformation from the base and not as a natural part of the human experience. Our mental health is also greatly affected by the social, economic and political conditions in modern society.
A lot can happen during our working life. Perhaps one of the parents may get sick, we have care responsibilities, and we suffer from an unexpected loss or financial difficulties: all can lead to difficulties in our mental health. Besides life, continuous structuralism racismand Classic and ability It affects their losses. The presence of a workplace that gets to know these factors – normalizes all mental health struggles, whether there is an immediate cause or not – it can be important to be able to stay at work. It was a rewarding and sad moment for me in the past few months to be a director in a non -governmental organization, a relative new employee who says: “I know that I can get sick here and it will be fine.” He had previously worked in another organization where, when a satisfactory leave was taken, it would be implicitly seen as inconvenience to the rest of the team.
There is no shortage of people who are not satisfied with their boss – in reality Stress at work is the rulePeople who have a positive relationship with their workplace in the minority. The United Kingdom has the highest percentage of workers in the world who say they are It will not work at all If the money is not an object, as it was cited stressful working conditions as a major reason. There is no just a bad apple – there is something wrong with the way we organize our workplaces. Since society secretes behavior and the defects of managers or presidents, there is no collective diagnosis of what happens or how to improve the culture and leadership of the workplace, and raise the tape to a more correct level of what is good.
Young people are the first group to retreat against this. they More demand From their workplace. This is part of a transformation between generations under implementation: my four -year -old child is taught to know emotional reading and writing in the nursery and at home, and he learned that he understands his full collection of his emotions and not feeling shame around them, while the generation of his ancestors is still stuck in the mentality that negative emotions such as sadness or anger are to be recruited and intensified instead of understanding. On this background, we must see youth conflicts with mental health as an invitation to understand not only their status and context, but also.
To really back down from the able concepts about the mental health that we absorb every day in society, we often need to have our own experience or deep sympathy for someone close to us. For me, my own trip with depression with a non -governmental organization leadership forced me to rethink some of my beliefs. First, it took a long time to confess and admit that I am depressed. My internal view did not allow myself to register until a colleague and friend, both of whom admired their experiences of depression with me. When I learned to manage my own struggle, I became more kind to myself and turned how it led. You are less controlled and more able to give up things more easily. It has become clear to me that it is not only possible, but it is better that the high -performance difference has a care culture. To show understanding the positions of others is an important basis for being able to ask people to take responsibility for their own needs and the needs of their role.
Although I was a way out, we have implemented the policies and best practices that we learned from other organizations, such as using a quilt day, when you can spend time without warning if you feel that you need a day in bed – a way to normalize eliminating days in bad mental health. Getting the balance properly is not always clear, and there is a continuous need for self -meditation and accountability.
Part of what young people need to move in their difficulties are emotionally mature adults who have their backs and who want to understand the root causes. What they get often is the oldest generations of patience, which you think are complaining a lot. It must change.