Mental Health : An Individual 's Psychological And Emotional Wellbeing

In quantum physics as well as in various ancient civilisation there was/ is believe that all is corrected including people. It my my believe, that it is really so. We all creating each other reality as well as improving/ destroying one to another ( helping or acting badly in order to make a harm)

A national strategy for promoting mental wellbeing and mental health is No Health Without Mental Health.

The articles address the prevalence of the issue of mental health and claims the importance of policy reform at all levels of society.

As a company or business you should ensure that all your employees are trained and have up to date knowledge of ways to promote good mental health and well being, this applies to the workers themselves and how to promote good mental health and well being for the service users they support. By educating your staff in the appropriate ways this will allow them to educate service users on how to achieve good mental health and well being for themselves.Other ways to support individuals to promote positive mental health for themselves are as follows;

Mental health matters, and whether employers know it or not, the psychological wellness of employees affects

Many people with mental illnesses try to hide their mental illness when applying for a job. Research from Mind released on May 16, 2011 found that one in five people who had disclosed their mental illness had been sacked or forced out of their jobs. This shows how most employers don’t want to hire people with mental illness. People with mental illnesses often intimidate employers because they often believe they could be a liability. But in reality although people have a mental illness there are quite a few jobs they are easily capable of doing and we should encourage their interest in working if they are capable of performing the job correctly. According to Psychology Today there are still attitudes within most societies that view symptoms of psychopathology as threatening and uncomfortable, and these attitudes frequently foster stigma and discrimination toward people with mental health problems. People's views on mental illness have been commonly portrayed through the mainstream media in an unpleasant way. This makes life more difficult for people with mental illnesses because this leads to discrimination by others. We should all erase the portrayal of people with mental illnesses, especially employers. If we are going to make opinions of people especially with mental illnesses then we should first do research on their condition.

This increasing prevalence of mental health issues has heightened the need for Australian organisations to refocus their duty of care to their employees.

I believe that being unemployed for a prolonged period may be a detriment to physical and mental health due to overwhelming stress. The idea of unemployment being detrimental to health correlates with Pharr’s (2012) and Janlert’s (2014) researches on the impact of unemployment on mental and physical health. Both concluded similarly that people who have been unemployed for prolonged period have poor mental health compared to the employed, Pharr (2012) also stated that unemployed people are hesitant to receive medical treatment for physical health due to cost. Stress contributes to poor mental health but also feelings of disappointment and shame towards

A strong case can be made for investing in mental health, whether to enhance individual and world wellbeing, improve life span, or even to enable people living with mental illnesses to have a better quality of life. Mental health problems account for a quarter of all ill health yet they receive less than 6% of all health research funding, people with these health conditions usually experience poor access to help services and lower quality care than those with physical health problems. Addressing mental and physical health needs together would be more cost effective for the NHS and would benefit the increasing numbers of people dealing with untreated mental illness.

‘‘In any given week, at least 500,000 employed Canadians are unable to work due to mental health problems.’’ (MLA). A lot of money is lost from decreased productivity because of those unable to work, and when five hundred thousand employees take mental health leave per week, this lowers productivity, hurts morale in the workplace, and finishes by penalizing the nation’s economy. This lowered productivity rate costed the economy in 1998 around $7.9 billion this including healthcare and mental disability costs, since then Canada’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has grown around 18-20%. Also, ‘‘Presenteeism can affect an organization just as sickness or absence can in terms of productivity and performance.’’ (MLA). Presenteeism is the act of employees coming to work even though they are sick. This act can lower productivity as much or more than if the employee takes a leave of absence. Sometimes, adults with mental health disabilities will commit presenteeism in fear of losing their job if they take a leave because of their marginalization. The results in line with that decision cause loss in work commitment and morale for that

Two separate programs are also run, one for early childhood and primary school students called, ‘KidsMatter’ and the other a secondary school students program called, ‘MindsMatter’. These programs aim to identify personal support networks within an individual’s immediate environment i.e. home or at school. Beyondblue also strives to create supportive environments within the workplace through the ‘Heads up’ program4. This program involves targets sociocultural and political factors that aggravate depression. For example, beyondblue place significant identification of emergency first responders, by specifically releasing a ‘Good practice framework for Mental Health and wellbeing in the first responder’s organisation’5. This framework aims to improve the mental health of first responders such as police, ambulance, fire and SES workers by suggesting measures which can be undertaken by senior officers or individuals to protect employees and their own health in hence reduce suicide amongst these professions. Therefore, beyondblue greatly incorporate the creating supportive environment action area through several initiative programs. This is highly important to the work of beyondblue as a healthy and safe workplace, targeted by the ‘Heads Up’ program, and

Hundreds of thousands of people die due to suicide every year. This number is estimated to double by 2020 should the current trend continue. The primary cause of these suicides is mental disorders and harmful use of alcohol - which in itself is a result of mental health related conditions. The World Health Organization reports indicate that 20% of the world 's children and adolescents suffer from one or more mental disorders and according to the Kim foundation, 57.7 million people in the US suffer from a mental health disorder.

In Anna Harrington's article, Where There's a Will, There's a Way (2012), she discusses the growing of mental health in the workplace. According to Harrington, "The current economic climate can have an adverse effect on an individual's mental state, affect performance and engagement at work, and increase "presenteeism" the situation where individuals come to work when unwell or not fully productive (Harrington, 2012, p.27). I have experienced this a lot in my workplace, and it's very hard to work with someone that's not fully productive. However, I had to overcome the anxiety of working with individuals like this and utilize resilience towards the situation.

Mental health problems are considered to “interfere with how a person thinks, feels and behaves” (Australian Government Department of Health, 2007, para. 3). Considered to be more prominent, yet less severe than mental illnesses, mental health problems are experienced for

The lack of acknowledgment of the declination of mental health has caused many issues with not only the efficiency of the companies themselves but also the overall health of the employees. The pressure that is put on employees in the workplace goes to demonstrate the