Comments on: How to Create a Mental-Health-Friendly Workplace

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:29:56 +0000

As a student in the Sociology program at SUNY Brockport University, an aspiring Human Resources worker, and a mental health consumer, it is so good to see articles which address this very important subject. Not many people realize just how common it is to find that coworkers, neighbors and family members suffer from mental illness. It can be so easy to write that person off as a non-contributing member of society. However, when you put a face on mental illness-the face of managers, employees, writers, doctors, business professionals, etc-it dispels this commonly-held stereotype.In the interest of true diversity, these issues must be addressed through better community and workplace education, and programs which support healthy lifestyles. Bravo on your article!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:18:35 +0000

What and excellent article. I work in an extremely stressful government agency. I have recently observed 4 incidents involving employees from a particularly stressed out directorate. In each case they involved very dedicated professionals who, I believe, reached their limit. In the most recent case it resultied in the re-assignment of an outstanding person who has many years of experience. I think there should be a counselor on staff. What Eli Lily is doing is very commendalbe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:27:06 +0000

With the suicides in Chinese plants, recently, this article is even more poignant. Management needs to be aware of how significant the perceived organizational culture is to the employees.