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Corporate Psychiatry
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A company is only as good as its employees. Employee burnout can lead to lost productivity, absenteeism, and low retention rates. ShrinkMD is here to help your team reach peak mental performance. By prioritizing the mental well-being of your employees, you can create a high-performing workforce and build a thriving company that excels in a competitive market.
Burn-out is defined in ICD-11 as follows:
“Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:
- feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion.
- increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job; and
- reduced professional efficacy.
Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.”
According to the American Psychiatric Association:
“The costs associated with untreated mental illness in the workplace—numbering in the billions of dollars—far outweigh the costs of providing treatment. When employees do receive effective treatment for mental illnesses, the results are seen in lower total medical costs, increased productivity, lower absenteeism and presenteeism, and decreased disability costs.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that depression and anxiety cost the global economy $1 trillion per year in lost productivity. They also found that approximately 280 million people worldwide suffer from depression with mental disorders being the leading category of illness secondary to cardiovascular diseases in the USA. Every $ 1 invested in treatment for depression and anxiety leads to a return of $ 4 in better health and ability to work thus suggesting a positive return on investment.
Improving Mental Health In The Workplace
Being proactive rather than reactive in treating mental health in the workplace can improve productivity and prevent burnout. Some of the ways employers can improve workforce mental health include:
“Once we normalize mental health the way we normalize an MRI for your tweaked knee or any other medical treatment, that’s when you start to see stigma come down. When you fight stigma, you can save lives.”
– Jerome Adams,
previous Surgeon General
“Stigma is the biggest killer out there. Stigma kills more people than cigarettes, than heroin, than any other risk factor. Because it keeps people in the shadows, it keeps people from asking for help, it keeps good people from being willing to offer help. And the way we overcome stigma is by sharing our stories as people who have mental-health issues of our own, sharing our stories as people who have overcome mental-health challenges, and sharing our stories as people who have reached out to help and embrace others who had mental-health challenges. Once we normalize mental health the way we normalize an MRI for your tweaked knee or any other medical treatment, that’s when you start to see stigma come down. When you fight stigma, you can save lives.”