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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

6 Things To Do If Your Job Is Harming Your Mental Health

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

At work, many of us often struggle in silence. We take on as much work as we possibly can, often pushing ourselves beyond our limits because we want to impress our boss, get a promotion and possibly get a salary raise. We all want a promising career. Yes, it is commendable to work hard for your goals. Yes, it is admirable to strive for something you want to achieve. And yes, only you can make your life better through perseverance, BUT never at the expense of your mental health and well being. In this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty shares tips on how you can identify when your mental health is at risk and how to get out of it without losing your job.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Knowing that you have more options than the place you're in right now

0:03.5

can give you such a sense of security knowing that, hey, even if things go wrong here,

0:08.7

I have plenty of other places I could go.

0:11.2

And often what we do is we become so artificially tied to where we are

0:17.1

that we feel guilty for doing that.

0:19.4

But the truth is that your work could tell you tomorrow

0:22.8

that they no longer need your services and not for any girl to talk.

0:32.7

Hey everyone, how are you doing? Welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast

0:38.1

in the world thanks to each and every single one of you.

0:42.4

And I am so happy, so excited that we're getting to connect today

0:47.3

because this is a subject that I think so many people have been struggling with recently.

0:53.1

And it's stress, pressure, or any sort of mental weight or overwhelm that you're feeling

1:02.6

because of work. So when your job is harming your mental health or when your work is harming

1:09.1

your mental health, what do you do? Now I read some really fascinating statistics

1:15.8

about mental health and work on stress.org. And it talks about how 83% of US workers

1:24.0

suffer from work related stress. Now listen to this, US businesses lose up to $300 billion

1:33.5

dollars yearly as a result of workplace stress. Stress causes around 1 million workers

1:40.0

to miss work every single day. Only 43% of US employees think their employers care about

1:48.7

their work life balance. Now I'm sure that induces a lot of stress. Just reading that,

1:54.0

that only 43% of you think that your employer cares about your work life balance.

2:01.3

And depression leads to 51 billion dollars in cost due to absenteeism and 26 billion dollars

2:09.2

in treatment costs. Work related stress causes 120,000 deaths and results in 190 billion dollars

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