Why You Should Talk About Your Anxiety at Work | Adam Whybrew | TED

What type of work people who have crippling anxiety and daily panic attacks can do?

When does the slack notifications stop?

I’d rather quit than tell my cold-hearted boss I have anxiety. Especially when her lack of direction and communication is the root cause.

In the American workplace, it's a well known fact that you have to hide your mental health issues. Even though an employer cannot legally fire you for having a disability (mental health conditions are disabilities), they will use your "performance" as a reason to force you out and if that doesn't work, they'll outright fire you for anything that won't get them into trouble legally speaking. Which probably explains why people go postal at work. Not an excuse just an explanation.

I will enter another company next month, and this video made me that i have a choice to talk about anxiety at work as well.( Of course i need to recognize who to talk though). Not all of the company can have the similiar situation as his, but at least to talk or want for help may help evveryone eventually.

No matter the job.. I can’t handle the stress

Y'all got this! Work can make you miserable. I have a small channel where I post music that help me cope with stress work and life. Music is really therapeutic for me. If you enjoy relaxing music as well, feel free to join anytime.

Very good TED talk. Specifically for anxiety, my mind is telling me my work environment is 'unsafe' with (justified or unjustified) thoughts about my colleages judging me. Makes me restrained to talk about my anxiety with my colleages and Management. Very bad (psychological) health care for anxiety in Netherlands!

I'm having the worst anxiety now because I made a stupid mistake that caused an inconvenience for my coworker. I feel so awful about it, even though I apologized and had a conversation with my boss.

Wow, the comments here are so depressing. I hope the world is better than that

If you’re having mental health issues there is absolutely no reason to feel shame at all and that can’t be overstated, but HR at your job is the absolute last party you should be talking to in most companies especially if you’re the breadwinner and you have bills. All they will hear is “There is something wrong me and it’s potentially impacting my ability to produce for the business.” Find a therapist. Take some PTO if you can and start applying elsewhere if you decide the job really is the problem.

Thank you so much sir. Your speech has been a strong motivator for me to start therapy 🙏🏼

Workplaces have never been more worrysome than they are currently. I dont remember seeing the older generation worrying on a regular basis about losing their job for a slight mistakes or mess ups. People took it slow and easy. Now with this entire current technology driven crusade every employee is expected to perform perfectly like a robot

It’s been 2 weeks I am getting panic attacks and anxiety at work for almost everyday. Really scared, the worst part is that I do mistakes because of that and there is no one that I can discuss it with

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This man has been lucky to have a great HR team and open minded colleagues. It is ideal but unfortunately not the majority of situations

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Yeah yeah yeah

The moment I get anxiety at work, I start looking for another job. There is not a single job on this planet that is worth exchanging my mental heath.

Up until the end, I was really looking forward to him coming up with some concrete stuff instead of just building up. Disappointing.

It took guts to share your story with your coworkers like that, especially because, as you acknowledged, that doesn’t always go well for people. Great talk. Thank you and hope you remain well

Good video, is a good conference

You're brave!✨

If you see an awareness campaign by a corporation that you work for, it is purely virtue signaling. You will be churned right out if they find out you are suffering from a mental illness as it hurts their bottom line. Save the mental health conversations for the therapist, not with HR or colleagues. They aren't there for that and will often betray you. Even if they don't, it's too big of a risk to take.

Thanks.

great video.

When I was stressed at work, I would come home thinking about tasks and problems I needed to solve the next day. Eventually, I started talking about it with my colleagues. Within a month, we were all discussing work problems every day and remained stressed. I quit my job six months ago.

Practical experience

Yes, the anxiety is horrible, thank you for the great video.

Thank you, that was Soo informative speech.

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Thank you ❤

This doesn’t work if you work from home.

This man is trying to get me fired.

this is what i always talking about everytime i have to teach my junior😭👏🏻

Thank you

Man - I shared an issue with a colleague. Later that information was disclosed to by the colleague and it betrayed me.

Just reading this TED Talk title makes me anxious...

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No thanks, we don't want to get fired.

Work really sucks these days. That's if you even have a job.

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Lol not even gonna take the time to say everything i think but this is worthless

So how do you deal with people that you know or lying to you, subverting you, basically trying to shut you out. Won't let you do your job that you were hired to do regardless of your skill level? How do you deal with punks like that?

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