Resilience, Mental Health, and the Workplace

Living with low mental health is incredibly isolating and all-consuming, especially when you consider the anxiety, depression, and other mental health illnesses that can arise from a period of low mental health.

For most working adults, it can be difficult to know how to manage their mental health and also balance a successful career.

That’s when the element of resistance may become a skill worth understanding.

Resilience

Resilience is not to be formed in place of a supportive mental health system. Serious mental health issues won’t improve unless there is some treatment or wellness action. However, resilience can help ease the struggle for people – especially in the workplace.

Work

When you’re juggling employment alongside the stresses of life, it is easy to feel like your mental health needs to take a backseat.

In between the pressure to dedicate yourself to your job, receive a promotion, socialise with your colleagues, and the temptation to avoid working masses of overtime, it can be difficult to notice when you’re suffering.

However, when your mental health becomes too much, it can be difficult to perform the usual tasks you would at work. In the employment world, this is known as ‘Presenteeism’ and is a bigger cost to businesses than sickness/absence.

And that’s when resilience comes in.

Improvement Services

A huge part of the OH One Minds Services is to teach individual and businesses how to manage their mental health issues.

Although you may not be feeling happy or productive, by training people in the art of resilience, they can manage their own emotions and feelings in the workspace.

Our OH Wellbeing service includes a specialist nurse who recommends therapeutic management techniques, advice for additional support, self-care routines, and an exploration into your (or your employee’s) emotional needs.

Resilience isn’t the only technique that will help you get through the working day. However, it is a system that may help you – and if it doesn’t, that’s okay.

Your mental health is unique to you. Only you know which treatment will work and which won’t. But that’s why with OH One Minds, you have a nurse tailored to you. That way, we can build a personalised treatment plan that works for you.

Mental health is a journey, but it’ll only improve if you start.