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Rethink
Scores of
British adults avoid talking to their boss about mental health
problems out of fear of losing their job or being considered “mad”,
new findings suggest.
Rethink is a mental health membership charity
which works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness to
recover a better quality of life. It carried out a survey
which found that almost 60% of British workers said they would feel
uncomfortable talking to their line manager if they had a mental
health condition such as depression, anxiety or bipolar
disorder.
Time to Change - Let’s end mental health
discrimination
Time to Change is an ambitious programme to
end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health
problems. It is run by the mental health charities, MIND and
Rethink. The website includes blogs on topics such as
employment issues. This blog gives an insight into the
challenges of finding and staying in work with a mental health
condition.
Mental health and
employment
Roy
Sainsbury, Annie Irvine, Jane Aston, Sally Wilson, Ceri Williams
and Alice Sinclair, 2008
Department for Work and Pensions, Research
Report No. 513
This report summarises research carried out by
the Social Policy Research Unit and Institute for Employment
Studies University of York on behalf of the Department for Work and
Pensions. It found that there was a perception among
employees that employers viewed people with mental health
conditions as a ‘risk’ or as unreliable or incapable of coping in
their job, and this was a factor in some people’s reluctance to
mention a mental health condition to their current, or a potential
future, employer.
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