Life Kit: Dealing with mental health at work
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On today’s bonus episode of Post Reports, we bring you a collaboration with NPR’s “Life Kit” about how to deal with mental health issues while on the job.
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Being on the clock while experiencing depression, anxiety or another mental health issue can be distracting, difficult and isolating. But you’re not alone. Post Reports producer Jordan-Marie Smith worked with NPR’s how-to podcast “Life Kit” on how to deal with mental health while at work. It doesn’t matter whether you are a barista or a CEO, this episode is a guide for how to get the help you need inside and outside of the workplace.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm recording if you're recording. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm recording. |
| 0:04.0 | Cool. |
| 0:05.0 | So, who are you and what do you do? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Jordan Marie Smith and I'm a producer with Post Reports. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey there, it's Martine. |
| 0:16.0 | Today on Post Reports, we have something a little bit different for you. |
| 0:19.0 | It's an episode from an NPR podcast called Life Kit. |
| 0:23.0 | I love this show. |
| 0:25.0 | It's like a how-to guide for being a person in our modern world. |
| 0:28.0 | They've done episodes on how to make a budget, how to run a marathon, |
| 0:32.0 | how to start a garden, whatever you're interested in learning, |
| 0:35.0 | they have probably covered it. |
| 0:37.0 | Recently, our producer, Jordan Marie Smith, worked with the team at Life Kit |
| 0:41.0 | to report on something that's personal for her, |
| 0:43.0 | how to take care of your mental health in the workplace. |
| 0:51.0 | I first got the idea to pitch an episode on mental health in the workplace. |
| 0:56.0 | After I saw this freelance journalist, Shavan Nielis Stock, |
| 1:01.0 | tweet about taking 2.5 months away from her job |
| 1:06.0 | just to recuperate and regroup and rethink. |
| 1:09.0 | And I ended up sharing my own experience on Twitter. |
| 1:13.0 | And then I kind of just tweeted like, |
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