Has your mental health affected your work and how?
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Does your metal health affect your work adversely, does it make you more high functioning, and how do you cope with it?
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A healthy mind is more efficient. Moreover, we cannot ignore the contribution of the peaceful working environment to efficiency. Concepts such as fear, restlessness, unwillingness, and unhappiness cause failure. I recommend meditation to protect our mental health!
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Seriously, it depends on what kind of mental health I am in. If I feel peer pressure and need to complete a work on time, my mind freezes and does not respond to anything except work.
When I am feeling emotionally low, I can not work, just can't. I need to lie down and not do anything or just listen to music.
I mange it by communicating it to my team and finding anyone to talk to about any random thing which makes me feel good. Or the best is talking to my mom.
Oh yes it is so correlated!! I tried to take some time for me before going to the office, don't leave myself on 3rd, 4th position, because then the consequences are even worst, taking that time of relax/reading makes the difference and affects my general mood and then my efficiency!
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@gd77 time for yourself and the self acknowledgement is really important.
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Working like crazy affects my mental health for sure. I recently researched ways to boost "happy neurochemicals" (Dopamine, Serotonin, Gaba, Endorphins) in the context of work and found cool tricks:
1. Listen to music while working
2. (This one is obvious) Get enough sleep
3. Volunteer to help a colleague
4. Split your work into small, achievable tasks
5. Work outside (summer) or move your office to a sunny room
6. Take small "do nothing" meditation breaks
7. Yoga
8. Even remote, make time for different types of social interactions
9. Vanilla or lavender aromas in your workspace
10. Work with a creative mindset
11. A happy brain's diet (view article for details)
12. The jack of all trades: Exercise
Hope it helps people in this community - Fred
In my experience, yes, it does. A lot of my work involves thinking and researching. So if I'm feeling off due to a bad sleep or my tea not being too hot, the mood slowly tiptoes into my work atmosphere, and wrecks everything. This has been happening more after the pandemic. To cut this out, I have started meditating and trying to have better control over my emotions.
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@tanoy27 I am so glad these practices are helping you. Any particular way of controlling your emotions?
@stuti One thing that I have realized over the years is that emotions are like kids. If you're not strict with them, they will walk over you. So, to be in control of my emotions, I try to force myself to do a task even if the voice in my head is like - "DON'T DO IT!" This is distressing at the beginning, but as you get good at it, you will know how to channel your emotions for doing productive work. Hope this helps.
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I always try to live in present and try to fit my mind with yoga or exersise and with healthy and positive brain when i work i get positive output
So far the work was impacting the stress level and I was using tactics to manage that like running etc..but this time, Covid-19 situation in my country making me stressful thus impacting the work .
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Quarantine has made most us focus on mental health and ergo realize we have a lack of mental health awareness. Ive become very aware and just as I physically exercise my body I mentally exercise my mind (mediatation, yoga, etc.)
In my opinion, this is a necessary foundation in intellectual and creative work.
If the foundations of your home are leaking, your walls can be blown away by the first wind.
The same will happen with your soft and hard skills if your mental health is at zero
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