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Depression at Work - Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN

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I suffer from depression. Several years ago I shared this information with colleagues at work because the secrecy and isolation only further reinforced my illness. I’ve sometimes regretted that decision – you never know the full repercussions of such openness. But recently I heard a remark that made me realize just how radical my decision had been.

A few months ago, the First Parish Unitarian Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, held a weeklong program to shed light on depression and other mental disorders. After the Sunday service, a group of us gathered for a question and answer session. “How do you tell your employer you have depression?” a woman in her 30s asked. “You can’t,” answered one of the world’s most prominent business gurus. “It would kill your career.”

That’s disturbing news, given that mental disorders have reached epidemic proportions both in the U.S. and internationally. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated 26.2 percent of Americans aged 18 and older – about one in four adults – suffer from diagnosable mental disorders, including depression, in a given year. And although it is difficult to estimate the burden of mental illness on productivity, data collected by a World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease study shows that mental illness, including suicide, accounts for 15 percent of the cost of diseases in developed market economies, such as the U.S. That’s more than the disease burden caused by all cancers, the NIMH reports.

There’s an important difference, though, between people who suffer from cancer and those who suffer from mental illness, especially depression, which is the most common form of mental illness found in the workplace. Victims of depression are generally forced to deal with it silently on the job despite the fact that there is quantitative evidence that 70% to 80% of them can return to full productivity with proper treatment, said former NIMH director Steven Hyman in a 2002 HBR interview. True, as the program at the Lexington Unitarian Church suggests, public awareness of the biochemical causes and treatments for depression is growing, but a huge stigma remains. And while both Europe and the U.S. have passed legislation to minimize discrimination towards the mentally ill at work, this legal protection only covers the extremes of mental illness. At this point the employee has typically passed the point of no return and is unlikely to be able to return to work.

“Depression is a killer,” says a woman I’ll call Janet, a middle manager at a large insurance firm. “My neighbor has Alzheimer’s. Her husband’s dead but she forgets and asks the nurses why her husband doesn’t visit. The staff explains that her husband has passed away, and the woman grieves as if she were hearing the news for the first time. That’s what depression is like. Every day you feel as if you are hit with the news that your beloved is dead. You go on because you’ve got to go on. But you keep your secret close to your chest because you need your job. This is what hell is really like.”

What about you – are you suffering your depression silently at work? Do you feel free to get treatment? If you’ve discussed your illness publicly, has your disclosure affected your career? And if you are in HR, or if your direct report is affected by clinical depression, how have you handled the situation? Are there any lessons or best practices that you can share?

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