Why You Should Talk About Your Anxiety at Work | Adam Whybrew

Why You Should Talk About Your Anxiety at Work | Adam Whybrew | TED

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Ай бұрын

We can’t get rid of anxiety and depression, so we might as well talk about it, says depression truth-teller Adam Whybrew. Sharing his own experience with mental illness, he reveals the surprising benefits of opening up about stress at work - and why being vulnerable creates a safe space for everyone.
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@mowgli2071 Ай бұрын

What you talk about needs to be determined by the environment you're in

@nothinginteresting1662 Ай бұрын

Why? Only because people judge. If people were accepting instead of judging you for what you feel, this thought of environment dependence would never have come up in the first place.

@snow-hd4cr 21 күн бұрын

In asia, when some people know you have some mental issues, they will bully you. Google "japan or korea bullying"

@alg003 Ай бұрын

People are struggling with anxiety and depression due to work because of the work. Management has never been more toxic in and outside of the workplace. And now, union jobs are being erased, so we're getting less money, fewer benefits, less being treated like people, and more like robots. If we call off a few times, we can get fired. If we screw up or just have an accident, we get punished and humiliated. We are expected to do our jobs perfectly, every time, all the time, for not enough money to live on.

@K4R3N Ай бұрын

And if you complain they'll ship your job to Asia or South America.

@akhmadzulfadli9421 Ай бұрын

Oh my god, it's really😮

@nothinginteresting1662 Ай бұрын

Believe it or not, the stigma on mental health is real. People would sympathize with you if you are physically ill. But mentally- they would run away far from you. And those "dear" to you would do everything in their power to stop you from talking about your experience. Because they don't want to associate themselves with a "fool". It is completely considered not okay to talk about your mental instability, no matter the awareness campaigns. It is not even an illness per se. I would say that majority of these conditions are a reaction to the fast-paced, urgency-driven, performance-based, do-or-die, dog-eat-dog world we have come to accept as reality. Mindfulness definitely helps.

@smathew8810 Ай бұрын

It’s not that they would see you as a “fool”. It’s just that it makes them uncomfortable and they don’t know how to empathise correctly.

@nothinginteresting1662 Ай бұрын

@@smathew8810 Why is that experience not allowed to be talked about then? It's not just about being uncomfortable. It is being uncomfortable to such an extent that that they would rather deny the experience and try to bury it as being irrelevant- as if nothing ever happened. They would rather prefer that you are wrong for feeling what you felt, not try to understand why you felt what you felt. You know, 'sweeping under the rug'. But pretending that the house is clean by sweeping all the dirt and garbage under the rug doesn't make it clean. There is something called as Emotional Healing. That is more in line with what needs to be done.

@user-bs7fy9hy8d 26 күн бұрын

@@nothinginteresting1662 It seems to me that you're both right. Some people dismiss your feelings because they see you as foolish or just a whiny kid. Others do it because they don't know the right way to respond to your experience, mistakenly believing that downplaying things can ease your pain. Sometimes, fully accepting someone's painful experience is as challenging as confessing my own struggles to others. That's why professional help is often necessary. But I fully agree with your view on the social stigma surrounding mental health.

@juliahenriques210 Ай бұрын

How about job stability, livable wage +20 to 30% for extras, career plans, relocation plans for when you find out that job isn't actually for you, and low tolerance for any kind of harassment? That would solve 95% of all job anxiety in our industrialised world.

@natashab8830 Ай бұрын

Absolutely !

@Lolcoca Ай бұрын

Absolutely TRUE !

@Gomusiczaya 15 күн бұрын

😊L0

@kat.b.7287 Ай бұрын

This is right on time, as I am at work and feeling anxious

@BrainiousPodcast Ай бұрын

I love it that we can find big inspirations in Ted all the time. Spreading knowledge feels amazing, I realised it mostly when I started a youtube chanel with my husband.

@macdisciple Ай бұрын

Man - I shared an issue with a colleague. Later that information was disclosed to by the colleague and it betrayed me.

@EchoMountain47 Ай бұрын

It took guts to share your story with your coworkers like that, especially because, as you acknowledged, that doesn’t always go well for people. Great talk. Thank you and hope you remain well

@MissFatz Ай бұрын

Thank you, that was Soo informative speech.

@user-ep2zu5ln9r Ай бұрын

Wonderful conversation

@96satenik 10 күн бұрын

It’s been 2 weeks I am getting panic attacks and anxiety at work for almost everyday. Really scared, the worst part is that I do mistakes because of that and there is no one that I can discuss it with

@kerlipkerlap Ай бұрын

this is what i always talking about everytime i have to teach my junior😭👏🏻

@mikhailp3088 Ай бұрын

When I was stressed at work, I would come home thinking about tasks and problems I needed to solve the next day. Eventually, I started talking about it with my colleagues. Within a month, we were all discussing work problems every day and remained stressed. I quit my job six months ago.

@christopherriveradiaz6463 Ай бұрын

Yes, the anxiety is horrible, thank you for the great video.

@rebeccabergeron9232 26 күн бұрын

This man has been lucky to have a great HR team and open minded colleagues. It is ideal but unfortunately not the majority of situations

@johnston.scott64 Ай бұрын

So how do you deal with people that you know or lying to you, subverting you, basically trying to shut you out. Won't let you do your job that you were hired to do regardless of your skill level? How do you deal with punks like that?

@K4R3N Ай бұрын

You gotta leave. Toxic situations usually don't get better on their own. I made many moves until I found the right place and have been at my current job for 4 years working for/with nice people. I had to go through MANY trash places first. Treat it like dating, it's not a marriage. If it's not the place for you, keep looking.

@TheLivirus Ай бұрын

Summary: Is work making you sick? Let's be sick together.

@ferdinandotto6944 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@pierrethegod22 Ай бұрын

The moment I get anxiety at work, I start looking for another job. There is not a single job on this planet that is worth exchanging my mental heath.

@StorytimewithSai Ай бұрын

Thank you ❤

@wlrswhskrs Ай бұрын

Just reading this TED Talk title makes me anxious...

@iamstudyingenglish.takeite4352 Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@CristoferDiaz-nq1rg Ай бұрын

Good video, is a good conference

@ela-camo Ай бұрын

You're brave!✨

@alwayswin7269 Ай бұрын

great video.

@queenie1409 Ай бұрын

Practical experience

@wallacejames221 Ай бұрын

This man is trying to get me fired.

@Tisha5001 Ай бұрын

l have also suffered from anxiety and depression 😢

@K4R3N Ай бұрын

Something that helped me was this quote: "Anxious people think too much about the future. Depressed people think too much about the past. Balanced people think about TODAY." So as much as you can reduce your thinking to just today. Good luck

@darinherrick9224 Ай бұрын

This doesn’t work if you work from home.

@MissFatz Ай бұрын

Happy International Father's day to all the men them.

@Naturefarmcitylife Ай бұрын

❤

@meccamadina7371 Ай бұрын

if i talk about my anxiety of getting old and having no life partner i'll get fired for harassment

@davidschneider8222 Ай бұрын

Yeah yeah yeah

@davidkeller8557 Ай бұрын

So they can lay off you in this recession? Nope. Bad call.

@Gruso57 Ай бұрын

If you see an awareness campaign by a corporation that you work for, it is purely virtue signaling. You will be churned right out if they find out you are suffering from a mental illness as it hurts their bottom line. Save the mental health conversations for the therapist, not with HR or colleagues. They aren't there for that and will often betray you. Even if they don't, it's too big of a risk to take.

@SurfbyShootin Ай бұрын

Ah yes, volunteer your emotional information so that your employers can leverage it against you as they have been doing to you collectively for decades. This time they have AI, but they won't exploit you with it this time, right? Keep them in the dark because they are in asymmetric warfare with you. Never forget that.

@K4R3N Ай бұрын

Work really sucks these days. That's if you even have a job.

@auspak7685 Ай бұрын

Up until the end, I was really looking forward to him coming up with some concrete stuff instead of just building up. Disappointing.

@mariaantoniettamontella9173 17 күн бұрын

applausi

@user-ew8xj5pg7y Ай бұрын

God loves you and cares for you so that this message reaches you. God is the one who created this large universe and controls it completely. The greatest loss a person loses in this life is that he lives without knowing God who created him and knowing the Messenger of Muhammad, the last of the messengers, and the Islamic religion, the last of the heavenly religions. Great intelligence, before you believe in something or not, is to read it, study it, and understand it well, and after that you have the choice to believe in it or not to believe in it. I advise you to do this now, before you no longer have time to do so. Life is very short. It is just a test, just a passage to eternal life. Great advice to those who... Understands

@Nannada1212 Ай бұрын

Meanwhile, companies will do anything to not give insurance, and give "resources" for therapy that are almost impossible to qualify for. I'm glad your green force field and your imaginary button work for you. Can your regular employees afford professional help?

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@TheBHAitken Ай бұрын

No thanks, we don't want to get fired.

@amondingaban Ай бұрын

I thought I would be the first viewer or the first who thumb up 👍🏿 but I have found 7 people before me but I'm lucky because I'm the first to comment.😮

@saltanataskerova8757 Ай бұрын

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@ViKODiN_ Ай бұрын

Frist

@jasonsworld333 Ай бұрын

Lol not even gonna take the time to say everything i think but this is worthless

@--ART3MIS-- Ай бұрын

how about: why you SHOULD have an anxiety or PTSD, even if you were never in a war AND went to a woke school, to stay fashionable. but I guess, that would cause an allergyic reaction