What a pleasure to have breakfast with @JuliaGillard the first female Prime Minister of Australia. She's one of the world’s most influential voices for women’s rights and mental health. We spoke about the long road ahead in de-stigmatizing mental illness, but also the wins.
A major challenge is that mental health is erroneously tied to competence. In so many countries when doctors, members of the police, military personnel and other professionals seek support, reporting procedures kick in and assumptions are made that the person is ‘not competent’.
And so, the very act of seeking out preventative support for anxiety, symptoms of burnout or depression, can literally lead to the loss of a job and livelihood. This hurtful and wrong conflation between mental wellbeing and competence, prevents people from getting the help needed
If you can, please help in this fight. Speak up to support those who are struggling. Lend voice of your struggles so that others feel able to do the same. Ask about the HR policies stop people from getting the services that they need. It takes all our voices to power this change.
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