Healthcare Workers & Mental Health
First and foremost, to all healthcare workers, thank you for all that you do! As frontline workers, you experience patient’s trauma and transference. There seems to be a big stigma that needs to end regarding healthcare workers avoiding their own mental health.
The Stigma must end. It’s a treatable disease like any other.... Are we mentally incapable of grasping the concept? Mental illness is a disease that may go undetected or misdiagnosed in you, your family, and/or your friends, Co-workers etc.
Self-care and seeking out therapy should be supported in the same manner as if you sought out a healthcare professional for a physical ailment. It is all because a person needs to heal, cope, and feel better too.
We talk about self-care, yet we often forget what self-care means. It’s not just meditation and breathing exercises, or taking a walk. Sometimes we need someone else to hold our hand and listen about our troubles, and even medications to get us through the day. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We are humans, not robots.
This article that I’ve read lately (link below) covers just that.
If you are a healthcare worker and feel your mental health deteriorating, you are not alone.