How Can Workers Build Up And Tap Into Their Mental Resilience - London Registrars Ltd
With the first five days of November marking International Stress Awareness Week, now is as good a time as any to ask ourselves how well we are managing our mental health in the workplace. Psychological wellbeing has always been crucial for helping workers to get the best out of their careers – but also remains a subject of great concern to many of us. This much is borne out by Mental Health Foundation research that has found a quarter of workers are affected at mental health issues at some point. However, despite mental wellbeing having become an increasingly common buzzword – in and away from the workplace – significant numbers of us are still unaware of exactly what mental resilience is, and how we can harness it. Explaining what mental resilience is – and what it isn’t As workplace health expert Dr Wolfgang Seidl was recently quoted as saying in the Evening Standard : “Resilience is the ability to adapt and bounce back from difficult events, challenges, disappointments or a...