Are you fighting
mental fatigue and burnout?
Depression is on the rise during the pandemic and impacting our personal and work lives. By Kathleen Waite, CCAM
Over the past nine months we’ve been bombarded with terms like “unprecedented times”, “adapting to the new normal”, and other news headlines that seem to drone on continuously about how as a society we need to adapt to COVID-19. The truth is, we’re all doing just that: adapting. If you look at your work life today versus nine months ago, it is likely very different. As our work lives morph into our home life, it is no surprise that mental health is taking a hit. While we’ve all made changes to accommodate a vast majority of our work struggles in coping with our new COVID limitations, nationwide our mental
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health is still suffering with nearly three times more people reporting depression symptoms than pre-COVID times. With depression jumping from 8.5% to 27.8%, that means that even if you yourself are feeling fine, you have over a 1 in 4 chance of interacting with another person that’s struggling with depression. As any association manager will attest to, our job is heavily entrenched in person to person interaction. As managers it’s important to know these statistics not only for yourself and coworkers, but for the residents and vendors we’re in contact with every day. Here are my 6 tips on how to keep anxiety and depression in check:
