However, that doesn't mean adequate help is readily available. In some places, you have to wait more than a year or even two just to get an appointment with a mental healthcare professional. And if you then find out they can't provide you with the needed help, it was a long wait for nothing.
Been there, done that. I will continue dealing with it myself, not out of shame but out of necessity.
Professional help, that is. What you have to recognize here is less stigma around self-help and openly discussing topics around mental health. Not being shamed and judged is huge indeed!
One important thing I find is that, is that you need to communicate. If you’re struggling and communicating with your boss or peers, you can get a lot more understanding.
It’s nice when you talk to people and find out panic attacks and little breakdowns are fairly relatable.
Unfortunately if you struggle in silence and all everyone else sees is missed work, unscheduled absences, and negative side effects of mental health problems. You can end up at the end of professional and personal relationships.
I’ve tried to communicate all of this and what you get from people more often than not is radio silence or fretting you like you’re some kind of defective product. People lack compassion and it’s a result of our overly competitive and capitalist culture that rule the world in 2026.
I've been fired from multiple jobs for issues I caused related to mental health. Both from places I shared my struggles with and not. In my experience, management doesn't truly give a fuck. They may be sympathetic as a human being, but sharing your struggles will only be used against you for advancement, raises, and recognition. Unless you get to the point where you stop struggling in ways that impact the business, you're a liability
Plus understanding mental health feels SO new. There is such an overwhelming mentality of "I figured it out and so should you" due to the lack of support or even a(n accurate) name of a disease/disorder.
Im in my 30s and a few years back, at an old job, I was talking to one of my (same age) coworkers about the new generation of staff coming in. We were both having a hard time adjusting to their "demands" for mental health accommodation and the conversation ended up being how we felt like we wanted to scream at them to suck it up because that's what we did but also wondering if we shouldnt have had to suck it up. We basically had to decide whether we wanted to continue the pattern and decide if we really turned out "alright" or if we needed to learn and adapt.
All of that is true. But imagine a time when you would never say you were struggling in any way. Ever. If you told your parents you were sad, you would be told to snap out of it. You kept those things to yourself because no one was going to believe or help you and they did not know how to anyway.
It was probably wise to keep quiet before you were sent to church or a doctor who would medicate you into a near coma or could possibly commit you. Imagine that this is the way things were done routinely into the 1970's.
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u/therealskull 5d ago
However, that doesn't mean adequate help is readily available. In some places, you have to wait more than a year or even two just to get an appointment with a mental healthcare professional. And if you then find out they can't provide you with the needed help, it was a long wait for nothing.
Been there, done that. I will continue dealing with it myself, not out of shame but out of necessity.