If you have never experienced ill-health resulting from workplace stress, it can be difficult to fully understand how other individuals can be affected or what you can do to help them.
The aim of this section is to use the personal experiences of a few individuals to give you an insight, either as a manager or as an individual, into what it can be like to experience a stress-related illness and the role that managers and employers can play in an individual's recovery and rehabilitation.
If you are suffering with the effects of stress, it is recommended that you seek the advice of your GP.
If you are currently experiencing or are managing someone who feels they are experiencing ill health as a result of excess pressure at work, our advice pages for individuals may be helpful. These pages are designed to help you find suitable sources of support and/or help to enable you to deal with your or your member of staff's personal circumstances.
Your trade union Health and Safety representative, if you have one, should also be able to point you in the direction of appropriate support and guidance.
Alternatively, the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE)
is responsible for running the NHS's Anti-Stigma and Discrimination
Campaign. The NIMHE website features a range of resources
on dealing with mental health problems, both for individual sufferers and
their employers.