Fact: 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability worldwide are mental illnesses.
What effect does this have on the workplace?
What you need to know:
What you need to know:
Persistent Mental Illness and the Workplace
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The Last Surviving Stigma
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Persistent Mental Illness and the Workplace
Consider these names: Abraham Lincoln... Theodore Roosevelt… Winston Churchill… Alexander Hamilton… Now consider these two questions: (1) What characteristic did these men have in common?, and (2) If offered the opportunity, would you have hired them?
The answer to the second question is probably, "Sure who wouldn't?" And the answer to the first question is - a persistent mental illness. Mental illnesses affect millions of Americans, yet it remain among the most misunderstood of all medical maladies.
Securing and sustaining meaningful employment is obviously beneficial to the individual with persistent mental illness. What may be less obvious is that including these individuals in the workforce can be tremendously beneficial to the companies employing them, as well.
Individuals with persistent mental illnesses are among the most creative and imaginative members of our society. What might the world have been like if leaders such as Lincoln, Churchill, and others had been relegated to the ranks of the unemployed? Many people find it difficult to believe that individuals whose accomplishments were so momentous as to change the very course of history could have suffered from a serious mental illness. But they did-and they are far from alone.
Research demonstrates that far from hindering creativity, the medications now available serve to actually enhance productivity. Harnessing the talent, creativity, and capability of individuals with bipolar disorder holds enormous potential benefits for the enterprises employing these individuals.
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Consider these names: Abraham Lincoln... Theodore Roosevelt… Winston Churchill… Alexander Hamilton… Now consider these two questions: (1) What characteristic did these men have in common?, and (2) If offered the opportunity, would you have hired them?
The answer to the second question is probably, "Sure who wouldn't?" And the answer to the first question is - a persistent mental illness. Mental illnesses affect millions of Americans, yet it remain among the most misunderstood of all medical maladies.
Securing and sustaining meaningful employment is obviously beneficial to the individual with persistent mental illness. What may be less obvious is that including these individuals in the workforce can be tremendously beneficial to the companies employing them, as well.
Individuals with persistent mental illnesses are among the most creative and imaginative members of our society. What might the world have been like if leaders such as Lincoln, Churchill, and others had been relegated to the ranks of the unemployed? Many people find it difficult to believe that individuals whose accomplishments were so momentous as to change the very course of history could have suffered from a serious mental illness. But they did-and they are far from alone.
Research demonstrates that far from hindering creativity, the medications now available serve to actually enhance productivity. Harnessing the talent, creativity, and capability of individuals with bipolar disorder holds enormous potential benefits for the enterprises employing these individuals.
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