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Listen to Heart FM DJ Matt Wilkinson talking to Christina about her experience of depression.
We also have some information on depression: www.mind.org.uk/mental_health_a-z…anding_depression
Listen to Heart FM DJ Matt Wilkinson talking to Gus Marshall about his experience of anxiety and panic attacks.
You can read a transcript of the mindcast on our website at: http://www.mind.org.uk/help/information_and_advice/podcasts/anxiety_and_panic_attacks_podcast
We also have some information on anxiety and panic attacks: http://www.mind.org.uk/mental_health_a-z/8001_understanding_anxiety_and_panic_attacks
Matt Wilkinson talks to Rachel about the times she had a mental health crisis and came into contact with crisis services.
Read a transcript of the podcast: http://www.mind.org.uk/help/information_and_advice/podcasts/crisis_services
Read Mind's information on crisis care services: http://www.mind.org.uk/mental_health_a-z/8038_the_mind_guide_to_crisis_services
Audio clips from People in Mind - an Oral History Project for Mind in Bexley, marking its 25th Anniversary.
Matt Wilkinson talks to Reka Krieg about her personal experiences of psychotic episodes.
Read Mind's info on psychosis: http://www.mind.org.uk/mental_health_a-z/8043_understanding_psychotic_experiences
Read the podcast transcript: http://www.mind.org.uk/help/information_and_advice/podcasts/psychosis_podcast
Listen to Heart FM DJ Matt Wilkinson talking to Siobhan O'Neill about her experience of living with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Read a transcript of the podcast: http://www.mind.org.uk/help/information_and_advice/podcasts/bipolar_disorder_manic_depression .
Read our information on bipolar disorder: http://www.mind.org.uk/mental_health_a-z/7916_understanding_bipolar_disorder
Is this an issue that affects all employers? DB: I think it is. I think it is very difficult for an employer to recognise when someone is stressed because people come in to work and they put on a brave face. You can’t see it. You can’t see what’s behind that face. You really have to make sure that you know if staff are suffering anxiety or if they’re suffering depression.
Do you think businesses need to do more to support their staff? DB: I think businesses always need to do more to support their staff. I mean you have to make sure your staff get their breaks and that they are actually enjoying their work as much as possible. I’m in a fortunate position in the health club business and my staff can use the health club. But when I was in the nursing home business may years ago, it was very different, and staff were stressed. I was stressed and really you know you’ve got to really gauge the amount of stress and ensure you can decrease that as much as possible.
Do you think the recession is a good time for businesses to be working on promoting good staff wellbeing? DB: I think the recession is a good time for businesses to be working on promoting good staff wellbeing because I think all businesses must do that at any time and especially now, because you have got to make sure that your business survives. You’ve got to look after your staff. If you haven’t got staff, you haven’t got a business. It’s as simple as that. Now there’s many ways you can do it without spending a lot of money. Just making sure your staff take the breaks, actually I make in mandatory in my company that my staff must take their breaks. If they don’t take their breaks, they’re actually breaking the rules. And everybody should have their breaks and their time off.
Do you think the recession will have had an impact on how people are feeling at work right now? DB: I think the recession will really have an impact on many many employees who are a bit insecure in their jobs, who maybe aren’t sure that the company is doing well and are scared in case the company goes into administration, or redundancies are made and it’s a very very anxious time.
And do you think looking after staff wellbeing is good for business? DB: Looking after staff wellbeing is fantastic for business. In fact it’s imperative. It’s very difficult to run a business without staff so therefore you have to look after your staff, make sure they’re really enjoying the business, enjoying what they’re doing and really getting stuck into it.
Do you think that looking after wellbeing at work is important? DB: Looking after wellbeing at work is very important. I mean it’s better to keep a member of staff who’s suffering a little bit of depression or is a little bit anxious than to find new member of staff. Every time it’s always better to keep the staff you have.
We are here with Duncan Bannatyne and he is offering his support to Mind’s new campaign, Taking care of business: mental health at work. It’s a five-year campaign to improve working environments and working lives. Thank you Duncan, and can I just ask why you are offering your support to our campaign? DB: I am offering my support to this campaign because I think it’s a fantastic campaign. I think it’s very important that we look after employees and that we build businesses based on the fact that everybody has got some sort of enjoyment in that business whether it’s as an employee, whether it’s an employer, and that nobody is suffering depression, or coming to work and hating coming to work because that really doesn’t gain us anything.
Full interview with Duncan Bannatyne.
Duncan Bannatyne supports to Mind’s campaign, Taking care of business: mental health at work. http://www.mind.org.uk/work
Right now, 1 in 6 workers is experiencing depression, anxiety or stress.
That's the elephant in the room.
Mental health in the workplace is the elephant in the room. It exists but too often it is ignored. But we think some problems are too big to ignore.
Taking care of business: mental health at work is our campaign to help people understand and start talking about the costs of neglecting mental wellbeing in the workplace.