Article: Managers and Mental Health: Mental Illness and the Workplace.(Statistical Data Included)

Mental illness is prevalent in modern society and in our organizations. Though our knowledge of mental disorders has greatly increased over the past few decades, managers' understanding and acceptance of the pervasiveness, treatment, and impact on organizational life has lagged behind. Partly because modern psychiatry and clinical psychology are relatively new fields of practice (just a century ago the seriously mentally ill were being locked away in insane asylums), mental illness still carries a stigma. We rarely disclose our depressed moods, our feelings of anxiety, or other mental symptoms to our work colleagues; yet our organizational chit chat is full of discussions of ...

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