What Happens When you have a Mental Health Crisis Mid-Career?

Welcome to Anxiety at Work --> We hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.

In this podcast, Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick are joined by Jason Finucan, a mental health advocate and founder of Stigma Zero, to discuss how to cope with a mental health crisis in your career. Jason shares his personal journey of being diagnosed with bipolar one disorder after a six-day manic episode that led him to found Stigma Zero and write a book about his experiences. He emphasizes the importance of eliminating the stigma of mental health at work and self-care during difficult times such as the pandemic. Jason advises finding a balance between dealing with external pressures and stresses and decompressing through activities such as reading, exercise, and hobbies. He also stresses the need to turn off social media and news regularly and curate our own information. Jason shares his lesson of not "soldiering on" and accepting mental illness as a lifelong battle. It is important to prioritize mental and physical health to be able to be the best version of ourselves in all aspects of life.

Our guest is our new friend Jason Finucan, a mental health advocate and founder of StigmaZero. As someone who has experienced both a major physical illness and a major mental illness, Jason shares his personal experiences in his book, “Jason 1: Stigma 0: My battle with mental illness at home and in the workplace.”
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Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.

They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.
 
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