Mental health—your mental and emotional well-being—can change over time due to factors like workload, stress, and work-life balance. Observed every May, Mental Health Awareness Month is a time to join together to fight stigma and provide support for people with mental illness and their families.
Mental illnesses are some of the most common health conditions in the United States.
- More than 50% of the population will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point
- 1 in 5 will experience a mental illness in a given year
- 1 in 25 lives with a serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression)
Although the pandemic’s mental burden has been challenging, it has enabled more transparency and empathy around mental health. Your employees’ overall well-being is connected to their mental health, so we recently released a toolkit that can serve as an introduction to mental health and provide several ways that employers can help promote a stigma-free environment and support employees’ mental health. Click the following link to access the Wellness Toolkit – Mental Health.
Looking for more discussion on this topic? Listen to our recent Podcast – Mental Health in the Workplace.