Tonya Neufeld discusses the mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers and the necessary steps to create supportive and healthy work environments.

Time Stamps:

0:03 – Welcome

0:15 – Goals of podcast series

0:23 – Ad for Care 2 Speak

0:50 – Trigger warnings notification around suicide and postpartum depression

1:00 – Land Acknowledgement

1:09 – Guest introduction

4:10 – Themes that come up from staff include: violence on the job, addictions and mental health

5:23 – Psychological safety in the workplace

5:59 – Trigger Warning: Paranoia and Depression - Personal experience mental health crisis

7:42 – Treatment and medication side effects

8:23 – Mental health supports/CREST House

9:49 – Trigger Warning: Depression/Anxiety -Physical symptoms how mental health shows up

11:05 – Signs that things weren’t right

11:50 – Trigger Warning: Obsessive Compulsive – effects on personal life

12:25 – Returning to work and stigma around mental health

13:00 – Identifying supports at work

13:55 – Having a conversation and responding to questions

14:53 – Mental health awareness through storytelling

17:03 – Trigger Warning: Talk of Violence/Pre-natal depression

19:25 – Sharing how you are feeling with someone

20:30 – Supports in the workplace and resources

21:45 – Prioritize self care

23:07 - Navigating and overcoming conflict

25:50 – Have conversation with someone outside workplace, Care 2 Speak

27:06 – Stigma in the workplace

27:25 – Trigger Warning: Suicide

29:25 – Find someone who is empathetic with how you are feeling

30:03 – Trigger Warning: Suicide and Loss

31:37 – You are not alone and don’t suffer in silence

34:25 – Closing

Resources:

Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers

Phone Resources

SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters

Home and community care pocketbook | Violence in the workplace - SafeCare BC

Bounceback (bouncebackbc.ca)