Education, Communication, Respect

The following resources can be used to guide employers, human resource professionals, managers, and colleagues, along with the employees who struggle with mental disorders. The links lead to a range of topics including: best practices for inclusion; the complex issue of disclosure; invisible challenges of individual disorders; and suggestions pertaining to reasonable accommodations.

Several of the articles address the impact of today’s high speed, stressful, information overloaded workplace on the productivity and emotional well being of ALL employees. 

The search bar (accessed by clicking the magnifying glass toward the upper right corner of the screen) can help you proactively explore specific topics of interest.

Musings (Blogs)

Inclusion

• Changing Your Culture by Bringing Humanity to Workplace – Executive Street  ß
• The Lost Art of Empathy: Restoring Humanity in the Workplace – LinkedIn  ß
• Trust and Empathy: Pillars of Diversity Leadership – INSIGHT Into Diversity  ß
• Darkness Invisible – Owen Wilson, Suicide, Depression – The New York Times  ß 

Stigma & Labels

• Stigma Is What’s Crazy About Depression – The Huffington Post ß
• Recovering in Anonymity – Does it Continue the Secrecy and Shame – BreakingTheCycles.com ß
• OP-ED: There’s no shame in treatment of mental illness – The Mercury – Pennsylvania – State Representative Mike Schlossberg – Depression, Suicide. ß
• A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not “Crazy” – emotional manipulation feeds an epidemic in our country that defines women as crazy, irrational, overly sensitive, unhinged. It’s false and unfair. Gaslighting is a term, which describes manipulative behavior used to confuse people into thinking their reactions are so far off base that they’re crazy. The Huffington Post ß

Disclosure and Accommodations

• To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Mental Illness at Work – PsychCentral ß

Training and Development

• Smarter Together: Emotional Intelligence with Diversity Inclusion – Since Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence, this concept has helped us appreciate the multiple types of intelligence, and recognize EQ is actually a better predictor of success than cognitive intelligence. Long-term effectiveness requires interacting with others, building relationships, promoting collaboration and having the requisite resilience to deal with the inevitable obstacles that occur. ASTD – ATD (Association for Talent Development). ß
• Building a Productive Learning Culture -Organizations must shift their emphasis from learning participation to learning productivity. They need to build a productive learning culture. ASTD – ATD (Association for Talent Development). ß

What Employers and Politicians Need to Know

• To the Person Reviewing My Resume, From an Applicant With a Mental Illness – The Mighty ß

Tools for Employee Success

• Overcoming isolation; why support groups are crucial for managing mental illness – Basic Needs – Tools for success  ß
• The Most Important Lesson I Learned About Failure – without it, you do not truly understand success. LinkedIn – Ted Rubin  ß

Creativity and Mental Illness

• The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness – Scientific American  ß
• Robin Williams followed the path of the creative genius – and chose to leave us – FlyingHighSolo.com ß

Personal Stories of Success and Inspiration

• My Chronic Illness Just Happens to Be in My Head – “Mental illness.” Yes, I have it. But I’m not crazy. My illness doesn’t define me. ß

Be Counted!  Illuminate Mental Diversity at Work.
There is safety (AND strength) in numbers. “All for one, and one for all.”

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