{"id":269184,"date":"2010-02-03T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthwebline.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-02-03T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:22:00","slug":"i-am-in-depression-and-looking-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269184","title":{"rendered":"I am in depression and looking for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an online survey conducted by the American Psychiatric Association of 1,129 workers, more than 40% said their employer was either supportive or very supportive of workers who sought out care for health concerns. Of these same employees, however, a high percentage believed that seeking help for particular psychological problems &#8211; such as drug addiction (76%), alcoholism (73%) and depression (62%) &#8211; would not be as accepted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is important to support an environment that encourages employees taking care of their physical and mental health,&#8221; said Dr. Alan Axelson, chairman of the association&#8217;s Partnership for Workplace Health Advisory Council, in a press release. &#8220;Research supports the fact that when people receive needed care, they are healthier and more productive &#8211; and employers realize the return on their health care investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The partnership offers the following suggestions for employers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supervisors and managers should set a good example by taking care of their own physical and mental health.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workplaces should promote prevention, early intervention and wellness programs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Employees should be discouraged from coming to work when they are not well.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Employees should be reminded of health benefits and programs available to them and shown how to access care.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Employees should be reassured about confidentiality, especially in the area of mental health care.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/depression.about.com\/b\/2010\/02\/01\/workers-afraid-to-depression-seek-help-due-to-workplace-stigma.htm?nl=1\" >About Depression<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an online survey conducted by the American Psychiatric Association of 1,129 workers, more than 40% said their employer was either supportive or very supportive of workers who sought out care for health concerns. Of these same employees, however, a high percentage believed that seeking help for particular psychological problems &#8211; such as drug addiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}