Although mental health issues are often unseen, hidden, and stigmatized, they are on par in importance with physical health challenges. An employee with a mental health issue can be just as significantly sidelined from being productive as one with an injured limb. The following insights aren’t designed to make the reader a therapist or fix an employee who is severely depressed and in need of expert help. Rather, they’re intended to help employees (and you) avoid starting down the slippery slope of developing mental health issues in the first place. Think of them as a vaccine of sorts, an inoculation, a prophylactic measure if you will, up front to prevent a problem down the line.
