Keeping The Sanity Of Workers In Check.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. Over the years, it is no new news that we spend more time checking other parts of our health and making sure everything is intact, but we forget to check our mental health, forgetting it is like the engine behind everything we do. Or every action, our every move, and our every thought come from up there, but when it is time for a checkup, we just check other roads and ignore our mental health and then conclude that we are healthy, forgetting that if anything is wrong up there, you are not healthy because being healthy means being healthy physically, emotionally, and even mentally; you must have all three.

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One part of us that does almost all the work but gets little or no attention is our mental health. When we feel stressed, tired, and exhausted, sometimes we go to a spa, get a massage, and before you know it, we are feeling a lot better, but we do literally nothing about our mental health. Whenever the body feels stressed, you don't need a doctor to tell you that you are also stressed and need the same type of treatment. You will be given your treatment because whatever caused the body stress must have also stressed you out because it is a part of everything that we do.

Sadly, we care more about our emotional and physical health and completely ignore our mental health, and for that reason, even firms don't care about giving workers a day or two to help keep their mental health in check; rather, they give us leave to take care of our physical health and emotional health, and that is because they know that is what we prioritize and have made the other (mental health) seem insignificant. Many times we see irrational behaviours from both employees and employers and we think is normal without knowing they are actually having a mental breakdown but they are still forced to show up to work the next day and even the day after.

So yes, I support that firms and employers give employees a day or two or even a week to go take care of not just their physical health but also their mental health. We have to bring to an end an era where only physical and emotional health is considered and mental health completely ignored and introduce an era where taking care of our mental health is preached and supported. If it is just preached and not supported, then it won't be deep-rooted, but when preached and supported like a day or two in a month or a year set aside just for a mental health check by each firm or employer, it will go a long way.

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Yes, many employees will want to take advantage of that and take a leave, just not to go for a mental health check; such a thing can be dealt with by requesting a mental health evaluation result from a doctor upon resumption. In the case of forgery, the employer can decide to have that mental health check at the firm, and those who need to be given a break to help their mental health rejuvenate can be given the break they need.