Mental Health in the Workplace
MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE
If you've been paying attention to society's problematic issue with getting along and inability to play nice with one another you might have been led astray from your own need for seeking mental wellness. Stress is not limited to only certain people. Factually anyone can develop unhealthy levels of stress that leads to mental health issues and later permanent physical changes such as M.S., heart disease, stroke.
Our workplaces are filled with imperfect people, unhealthy marriages, toxic family members and neighbors that drive us insane with crazy-making acts.
In child to adulthood people with an emotional disturbance, experience the worst outcomes of any group of pupils and have an inability to learn which cannot be explained by other factors, as well as the inability to build or maintain good relationships at school. Students display difficulties with feelings or behaviors. Child to adulthood mental health conditions become more obvious.
Suggested contributors of emotional disturbances are —heredity, brain disorder, diet, stress, and family functioning—which have been vigorously researched.
Of the individual they realize that life is more difficult for them than for other people in their workplace. A workplace filled with intrusive coworkers, mixed with gossip and sometimes task overloads can be unbearable for someone that is predisposed with chronic overthinking, depression or anxiety.
1-out of 10 people are significantly emotionally impaired in their ability to function at school, at home, work and in society.?
2-out of 10 people have an emotional disturbance. 80% of child age individuals never receive mental health services before they become an adult, however half of adults with an emotional disturbance seek mental health services.
Some of the characteristics and behaviors seen in people who have an emotional disturbance include:
An adult parent is responsible for ensuring that their children have safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Only 39% of households provide most of these elements. 61% of all households have 1-adverse childhood experience in their household, and of that group 2-in-6 households have at least 4-adverse childhood experiences.
Struggling parents that have been abandoned by the non-custodial parent experience new stress from having to do "it all" compared to people that don't have the obligation of caring for someone other than themselves.
The following adverse events are considered toxic to the human brain and 61% of households have at least one of these issues:
Violence, abuse, social stressors such as poverty,?racism, abuse, misogyny, institutional/structural racism against any color, any cultural racism, and any interpersonal discrimination and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems, fear and fearful living.
Any or all of these issues can transpire in the home, workplace or in the general public.
Toxic stress can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. Any racial discrimination of any color/race embedded within interconnected social, political, social-media and economic systems and educational institutions in private/public/HBCU can cause or inflict toxic stress on an individual or a whole group.
Overhearing brief?Negative Messages?has lasting effects on?children and adult’s?attitudes.?Children react to what they are told or overhear. Negative messages in the home, general public or workplace change how a child thinks and behaves. Negative messages over a prolonged period can cause mental health issues. Negative messages can be about the child or someone else or a group/class of people. Anger in children as a result of negative messages received or overheard can result in retaliation against the speaker or a class/group of people.
Adults listen to negative messages and use that information to "dislike", "not favor" or ostracize individuals from workplaces, social groups, social media and all other forms interactions. Adults use negative messages to align "followers" to like what they like and dislike what they dislike. Hiring a candidate that isn't qualified but is "liked" is an example of persuasion to like what the leader likes. The leader is the person that can help retain the followers continued employment in exchange for support to like what the leader "likes".
In our workplaces are people with disorders that we recognize as our coworker, manager, supervisor, Owner that very well could be suffering from one of the six classified disorders.
Classification of Disorders:
Conduct Disorder: ?1-out-of 6 males and 1-out-of 11 females have this disorder.
Of hate crimes in 2019, according to the FBI there were 6,406 offenders.?
3,329 were of an ethnicity considered “white” that committed 2,865 crimes against a person. ?3,072 were of an ethnicity considered a “person of color” that committed 2,647 crimes against a person.?At least 862 individual offenders were 17-years old or less.?
Locations of the crimes were in or near a home, public thoroughfares, educational facility/grounds, parking facility, and the remaining in other types of locations.
Among the reasons for the hate crimes 116 were anti-mental illness and 52 anti-physical disability.?The offenders in year 2019 committed 8,559 offenses that include 1,352 anti-“white” hate crimes, 4,142 anti-foreign “black” or American “black” hate crimes, 1,232 anti-“Hispanic” hate crimes.?990 hate crimes were against Jewish people, and 219 against Muslims.?224 offenses were against alternative genders. ?Of all of the hate crimes 3,175 were assaults.?2,811 crimes against property were destruction, property damage, vandalism, arson, burglary, larceny that were committed by?532 people considered “white” and 2,279 considered a person of color. 2,208 crime incidents were intimidation.
Anxiety: 1-out-of 7 males and 1-out of 5 females have this disorder.
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Anxiety is an umbrella term that actually refers to several distinct disabilities that share the core characteristic of irrational fear: generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social anxiety disorder (also called social phobia), and specific phobias.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: 1-out of 200 men and 2-out-of 100 females have this disorder.
OCD is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behaviors (handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning) are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these so-called “rituals,” however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety.
A large body of scientific evidence suggests that OCD results from a chemical imbalance in the brain.?
Eating Disorder: 1-out-of-10 people have this disorder.
1.?Binge eating is an eating disorder. It’s characterized by eating excessive amounts of food, while feeling unable to control how much or what is eaten. Unlike with bulimia, people who binge eat usually do not purge afterward by vomiting or using laxatives.
2.?Bulima is eating followed by purging the digestive system.
3.?Anorexia is fasting for more than a day to lose weight.?
*Both bulima and anorexia can result in permanent heart and digestive system damage. Arms with raised veins on very thin people are characteristic of heart issues in people with eating disorders.
- PTSD affects 7.7 million adults or 3.6% of the U.S. population.?NIMH:?Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
- Women are 5x more likely to be affected than men.
- Rape is the most likely trigger of PTSD: 65% of men and 45.9% of women who are raped will develop the disorder.
- Childhood sexual abuse is a strong predictor of the lifetime likelihood of developing PTSD.
* Rape is the most under-reported crime; 63% of sexual assaults are not reported to police (o). Only 12% of child sexual abuse is reported to the authorities
National Sexual Violence Resource Center states:
One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old.
3.5 rapists out of 10 are family members.
42% of females experience rape for the first time before the age 18.?12% of raped females are younger than age 10 at the time.
Despite the fact that studies estimate one in six women and one in 21 men will be a victim of attempted or completed forcible rape in their lifetimes, only?16-40% of rapes are reported to law enforcement.
The CDC says: About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse.?Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse.
WHAT WE SHOULD DO:
-????????- There are many reasons why individuals are considered moody, angry, risky, submissive, controlling and healthy which is why people should learn as much as they can about mental illness causes and wellness.?
-????????- Being more informed can help you understand and navigate triggers and bad situations.?
-????????- Mental health wellness should be everyone’s top priority.?