Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Your Absolute Mind. You know what this podcast is all about and if in any doubt we discuss mental health and more importantly how we can all become mentally healthy together. Today we're taking some advice and experience from our HR professionals. We're learning what they're experiencing day-to-day relating workplace mental health. Now I recently reached

out to some HR professionals on LinkedIn to get their insights on what they're dealing

with regarding employee mental health, the pressures that they face and the initiatives that

have proven effective or otherwise. The responses were eye-opening and it gives us a real sense

of the current landscape.

So let's get into it. But before we do, to give this more context, I sent each member a brief

message with the following questions. The first question I asked was, how much of your time

or focus is spent on mental health related concerns and also how has this changed over the past five years?

The next question was, what do you currently have in place to help employees with their mental

health concerns? Third question, what's the most common mental health complaints that you see?

Then, what mental health initiatives have you tried that you feel have been beneficial?

And the last question was what mental health initiatives have you tried or been a have been beneficial and the last question was what

mental health initiatives have you tried or been a part of that you found haven't been helpful

i also asked if there's anything else that they want to add to please feel free and pop it in their

message so let's take a listen from the hr heroes of what they're experiencing in their workplace

first up we're going to hear

from Kelly Allen of HR department in Bradford, where she shares with me her professional experience

over the past few years. So here are some of Kelly's responses. Firstly, Kelly says, mental health

concerns play a large part in employee relations issues even if not overt and in my

experience employees may act out in a certain way at work because of what they're dealing with

their personal lives with mental health challenges this has changed hugely over the last five

years and in my experience is still only becoming acceptable to talk about in some industries. Mental health stigma is still a thing,

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