Workplace Mental Health: How to Protect Yours

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• Workplace Mental Health: How to Protect Yours
• How Your Workplace Can Hurt Your Mental Health
• Protecting and Improving Your Mental Health at Your Job
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Workplace Mental Health: How to Protect Yours

Many people spend a significant portion of their lives at work, and if your workplace causes misery because it’s negative, your mental health can suffer. It can also recover.

How Your Workplace Can Hurt Your Mental Health

Unhealthy work environments can involve toxic supervisors, workplace bullying, inflexible policies, lack of control and freedom, or negative coworkers.  

Workplace mental health challenges that can arise as a result include:

• Heightened stress
• Burnout
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Declining self-confidence
• Substance use
• Sleep problems

Protecting and Improving Your Mental Health at Your Job

It’s possible to take control of your own mental health at work and make your job more positive. Try these tips:

• Identify what is right and what is wrong. Increase what is right. Address what is wrong.
• Respect yourself; you don’t need approval from people you dislike.
• Connect with positive people.
• Calm your mind and body with deep breathing and mindfulness.
• Make your own space a happy place. Include reminders of your values and goals.
• Practice stress management outside of work.
• When you are off work, be fully off. Focus on family, friends, and things you enjoy.

Workplace mental health is important. If you are in a toxic work environment, affect what you can—which is usually yourself.

Related Articles Dealing with Workplace Mental Health

• 5 Ways to Improve Mental Wellbeing at Work
• Dealing with Verbal Abuse at Work
• Narcissism in the Workplace
• The Effects of Depression in the Workplace
• Workplace Bullying Can Cause Anxiety and Depression
• Dealing with Mental Illness in the Workplace Isn’t Easy
• What Is Self-Confidence?

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: When it comes to workplace mental health, what has been a major challenge to your mental health at work? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• It's Okay to Be Lazy Sometimes, Even with a Mental Illness
• Letting Go of Friendships for Your Mental Health
• Why I Choose to Self-Disclose About My Mental Illnesses
• Psychiatrists Won't Listen to Patients -- 8 Reasons Why
• The Frustration of Flashbacks with PTSD
• 30 Quick Ways to Stop Worrying and Get Anxiety Relief Now
• The Feeling of Being Alone and Depression
• How Mental Health Support Groups Help You Build Self-Esteem
• Taking Care of Myself by Asking for What I Want and Need
• Mental Health Hospitalization Stigma: Remember Your Worth
• Kindness Changes Your Brain for the Better
• Why We Need Better Film Portrayals of Eating Disorders
• 3 Tips for Being Honest in Therapy

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Responding to Your Friend's Mental Health Support Needs
2. Decluttering Tips for When You Are Feeling Anxious Brandy Eaklor
3. How to Stand Up to Stigma Concerning Mental Health

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

"Recovery begins at exactly that moment when you are completely broken to pieces and must surrender to unfamiliar and uncomfortable ways in order to be rebuilt into who you were meant to be."

Read more mental health quotes.

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