Depression and Stress impact on the workplace
by Sarah
Mental health problems are having a huge impact in the workplace, with increasing numbers of employees taking time off for stress and depression, research has shown. The study of 30,000 workers found that depression/stress is now the second largest cause of time lost to sickness absence.
As employment solicitors these issues do impact in our work daily. Cases of depression/stress need to be handled sensitively as they may in some instances constitute a disability. That aside particularly with stress, employers have to tread carefully so as not to make the situation worse by their actions as employees may try to bring a personal injury claim as a result of the stress.
Not only can these issues cause difficulties with managing sickness absence but they often arise when there are other issues to be dealt with. For example it is not uncommon, for us to see when advising employers, that the employee is suspended facing an investigation for GM and then gets signed off sick with stress. From the other side of the fence we see people in our offices who are genuinely stressed and their health is suffering. Much is said about doctors handing out sick notes like sweets but the difficulty employers face is telling which cases are genuine or not when the card has been played.
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Hi
After 38 years as a Physiatrist I put up my own websites.
They are two free sites.
One [http://www.myRay.com ] is dedicated to help sufferers of Emotional Stress. People, who feel depressed, stressed or anxious yet they are still functioning.
Sufferers of Emotional Stress can and will eventually suffer from Depression and Anxiety. They enjoy a persistent poor quality of life. myRay http://www.myRay.com
can correct this.
My other free site http://www.MyDoctorExplains.com explains all you need to know about feelings, thoughts, emotions, moods, depression, anxiety, what they mean, what you can do and how you can choose.
Both sites, http://www.myRay.com and http://www.MyDoctorExplains.com are free. They are designed to help you.
Use them as often and as long as you so wish.
I hope that they will be of assistance.
With kindest regards
Dr. Michael Benjamin,
Psychiatrist
Dr. Michael Benjamin said at June 8th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Thank you for your comment. We are happy to let you plug the sites as they are free and may help those that suffer from stress and depression.
Liam said at June 8th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Mental health problems affecting employees is a difficult issue - obviously it is in everybody’s interests to understand the problem fully. See: http://www.workplacelaw.net/display.php?resource_id=8910&keywords=depression
for some interesting statistics - I was pretty shocked to see the percentages of people who take sick leave due to depression and anxiety, and how many of these are attributable to work stress.
Anna said at August 29th, 2007 at 11:00 am