Ep 5: Mental Health and Stigma

Tonya Neufeld discusses the mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers and the necessary steps to create supportive and healthy work environments.

Time Stamps:

 0:03 – Welcome 

 0:15 – Goals of podcast series

 0:23 – Ad for Care 2 Speak 

 0:50 – Trigger warnings notification around suicide and postpartum depression

 1:00 – Land Acknowledgement 

 1:09 – Guest introduction 

 4:10 – Themes that come up from staff include: violence on the job, addictions and mental health 

 5:23 – Psychological safety in the workplace 

 5:59 – Trigger Warning:  Paranoia and Depression - Personal experience mental health crisis

 7:42 – Treatment and medication side effects

 8:23 – Mental health supports/CREST House 

 9:49 – Trigger Warning: Depression/Anxiety -Physical symptoms how mental health shows up

11:05 – Signs that things weren’t right

11:50 – Trigger Warning: Obsessive Compulsive – effects on personal life

12:25 – Returning to work and stigma around mental health

13:00 – Identifying supports at work

13:55 – Having a conversation and responding to questions

14:53 – Mental health awareness through storytelling 

17:03 – Trigger Warning: Talk of Violence/Pre-natal depression

19:25 – Sharing how you are feeling with someone  

20:30 – Supports in the workplace and resources 

21:45 – Prioritize self care 

23:07 - Navigating and overcoming conflict  

25:50 – Have conversation with someone outside workplace, Care 2 Speak 

27:06 – Stigma in the workplace 

27:25 – Trigger Warning: Suicide 

29:25 – Find someone who is empathetic with how you are feeling

30:03 – Trigger Warning: Suicide and Loss 

31:37 – You are not alone and don’t suffer in silence 

34:25 – Closing 

Resources: 

Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers

Phone Resources

SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters

Home and community care pocketbook | Violence in the workplace - SafeCare BC

Bounceback (bouncebackbc.ca)