Adland leaders share their experiences with mental health in Heart On My Sleeve story book
A collective of industry leaders, dubbed the ‘Mentally Healthy Change Group’, have come together with the Heart On My Sleeve movement to release the Heart On My Sleeve story book.
The book is a compilation of stories from industry leaders about their experiences with mental health struggles, in an effort to address mental health in adland and remove the stigma around seeking help.
The Heart On My Sleeve story book is a combined industry effort to remove the stigma surrounding mental health
When are our leaders actually going to make the changes they claim they want to make to improve conditions?
Smashing the stigma is crucial to ensure people feel comfortable talking about their struggles. But at work, until people feel they aren’t going to be penalised for being ill, until leaders start practising what they preach and push back on clients, staff up sufficiently, charge enough to make workloads manageable and respect their need to have time off without the guilt trips, then nothing will change.
Reducing the stigma without changing the conditions and reducing the risks to those of us going through the struggle is meaningless
I mean.. how about some stories from juniors struggling with their mental health and how their “leaders” compound the issues by making them feel obliged to work long hours, promoting bullying culture and putting the cash and client before people’s well-being even though we’re told we come first ??
“Now, whether that’s individual training for people to deal with the pressures of agency life or for us as leaders to help our teams navigate an incredibly tricky time,” Rennie said.
A bit like the tobacco industry leading an anti lung cancer initiative.
This great great from Mitch and these leaders.
Worth noting the huge investment people like Danny Lattouff have made behind the scenes here too. Someone who genuinely believes in mental health and has championed a lot of these initiatives in the industry.
So true!
I took 2 days off ill last week and the response over the phone on the morning of the second day was “do you really need the FULL day off?”
Well yes, actually I do… I mean I can also work from home, but ‘you people’ also frown on that as well.
yeah the snide looks and remarks that come in response to hearing someone is working from home are the worst.
The assumption always seems to be they are skiving..
People struggle to humanise colleagues and view them as people with responsibilities and obstacles outside of the office.
We don’t cease to exist once we clock off only to reappear the next day.