Breaking the Stigma: Addressing Mental Health in the Workplace

Growing mental health problems in the workplace are worrying for the organization. After the Covid, people are more conscious about their health. The consciousness sometimes causes over thinking. As the work pressure increase, people start developing anxiety and stress.
Addressing mental health in the workplace is the most critical for any organization. People lose productivity due to a lack of focus on the job. Mental health also reduces the motor skill of the problem. A simple task that should be done in a few minutes could take several hours if the person is mentally sick.

Additionally, discomfort caused by mental health will develop physical pain in various parts of the body. You must address the symptoms early to avoid the long-term health problem.

Type of Stigma Seen in the Workplace

The first and most important thing before addressing the problem is awareness. There are different kinds of stigma behaviors seen in the workplace. Let’s dive down to understand the causes of Stigma with their different types.

1) Self Stigma

The self-stigma is a personality that makes you believe the world is sick. You assume the person you are interacting with has some attitude or self-belief that makes them not respond the way you want.
Instead of seeing them as authoritarian personalities, you should look at another side of the picture. It might be possible that the person is going through a challenging time.
Stress and depression because of broken relationships might be causing them to develop unhealthy relationships with those around them.
Such people need help from others but cannot ask for it because they do not find anyone around them. Low esteem could cause anxiety and make you take harmful actions. Medical treatments are available for people who are going through the problem.

2) Public Stigma

The conventional belief system causes Public Stigma to be passed through generations. A negative attitude toward a social group of people is a state of mental health that develops over time.

Our brain is designed to consume information from nature. When you consume too much negative information about a particular subject or thing, your belief system strengthens, and you start following the same path without giving it a second thought.
People in such conditions feel low energy, feared, discredited, and most are found in the isolated condition.

3) Structural Stigma

The workplace goes through systemic discrimination, where a person is treated based on cultural norms, policies, or institutional practices. The outcome of such practices ends up developing a team not aligned to a single goal. Mixed feelings in the team are not a sign of an excellent organizational culture.

Ways to reduce Stigma in the workplace

Diverse perception is seen in people dealing with various workplace conditions. Addressing the issues is the first step to making every aware of the brain’s reaction to certain activities performed in the workplace.
Talk to the employee about what matters most in the work environment. Interaction with the employee improves the mental health of the person. The employee’s conscious decisions will make them healthy and drive them on the right path.

Here are some tested formulas to reduce Stigma