Post Deliberation Reflection

I went to the deliberation entitled If You Can’t See it Are They Really Sick? The Social Stigma Around Mental Health. I chose to go this discussion because it offered me another opportunity to look at mental health but this time through a different lens, through one that was working to combat mental health stigma in the workplace since that would affect us all in the future since we will all soon join the workforce. I really wanted to go this deliberation because I wanted to see if the ideas that were brought up in this discussion were ones that could be applied to also helping the stigma surrounding mental health on campus.

In this discussion, the focus was on how to help and create a better environment in the workplace so that we can prevent and stop this growing problem plaguing corporate America. This was the main idea that we analyzed during the deliberation.

The main discussion that I participated in and found to be the most engaging was the one discussing the idea of having sick days to being renamed to encompass sick days for physical illness but also mental illness so that there would be less discrimination. I really supported this idea and thought it would work well, businesses already have these built in sick days, to begin with so allowing them for mental health only seems to reasonable especially when you consider the idea that was brought up in my deliberation about how  “mental health issues are just as serious as physical issues; there should be no difference in empathy.” I think this really applies to mental health in the workplace as well and I think it is really important to draw conclusions and make connections between the steps being taken on campus and at the corporate level for getting rid of the stigma surrounding mental health. 

 

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