Mental health: making workplaces part of the solution

There are those who have developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome, and those who deal with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.

What we see emerging across a host of low and middle-income countries are a series of locally-relevant interventions and business models that facilitate recovery and well-being for people with mental health problems. Those who knew Harper-Mercer, who died during a shootout with police, said he was a troubled loner who had studied mass shootings and expressed envy of the recognition the shooters received. Or insurance companies set payment rates so low that mental health providers won’t accept the coverage. Williams thinks his legislation could have prevented that tragedy, if its policies were in place during the time of the shooting.

This is Mental Illness Awareness Week, and I wonder how many people are aware of NAMI Denton, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. We wouldn’t expect them to manage cardiac disease! No one in my family or my community introduced me to the concept that mental health problems could affect any of us one day.

ALSA is encouraging law students and lawyers to openly discuss mental illness throughout Mental Health Week (ALSA Wellbeing Week), which runs from 2 to 10 October. The next step may be a referral to a mental health specialist.

However, the opposite is true for organisations that properly support their employees at work. Downtown Dayton Ambassadors and RTA bus drivers have also received the training. This was something I could not get rid of no matter what I tried. Headlines about the massacre have trumpeted mental illness as the cause. According to a study in the American Journal of Public Health, “only about 4 percent of violence in the United States can be attributed to people diagnosed with mental illness”.

Mental illnesses are based in human biology, just like diabetes or cancer.

The conference will expand on the church’s first mental health program, held in April 2014. Marketplace businesses raise more than $200,000 each year for local charities and nonprofits in addition to donating materials, space and time. From the point of view of a mental health patient, these unquestioned cultural biases about mental health illnesses merely make matters worse. But keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill is another piece of common ground shared by both advocates of gun control and the NRA.

“All the organizations being recognized today understand about giving back to the community that supports them”, said Roger Pomerleau, a marketplace partner. People with a mental illness often feel the same prejudices, blaming themselves and feeling guilty and bad due to their illness.

A mental health condition is like cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, a broken bone or any other physical ailment, lead presenter Kerri Orr told students.