Wellness in the Workplace: Physical and Mental Productivity Offenders

Having a stable income to sustain a family or desired lifestyle is the goal of every working citizen. From a young age, children were taught to explore their talents in pursuit of discovering valuable skills that could lead to a prosperous livelihood for their future.
Unfortunately, the mortality of the human body limits the pursuit of personal success due to illnesses like the common cold and the flu. Often, these limitations do not stop with just physical ailments like anxiety, addiction, dependency, and mental disorders also affect work ethic and job performance.

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• Wellness in the Workplace: Physical and Mental Productivity Offenders
• Productivity Offenders: Physical Health Problems Surgeries and Accidents
• Pills, Addictions, and Dependency The Disease Model of Addiction
• Productivity Offenders: Mental Health Problems
• Investing in What Matters
• Ask Us a Question About Treatment

Productivity  Offenders: Physical  Health  Problems

Surgeries and Accidents

Other productivity offenders are the uncontrollable forces around us that cause unfortunate disasters. Car collisions, broken limbs, injuries, and accidents take valuable employees out of work to deal with the problems they find themselves in.
Thankfully modern medicine has advanced to help those struggling with their mortality with a speedy recovery. Antibiotics, advanced diagnosis equipment, antivirals, and pain medication are all advancements in medicine that get the working population back to work when the body becomes plagued with ailments and injuries.
These advancements leave room for overuse and abuse.

Pills, Addiction, and Dependency

The Disease Model of Addiction

“Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors.
Addiction is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response. Like other chronic diseases, addiction often involves cycles of relapse and remission. Without treatment or engagement in recovery activities, addiction is progressive and can result in disability or premature death.”

No one aspires to become an addict, but those who depend on a substance to stabilize their mind and body to be working-class citizens get sucked into that life in pursuit of another.
Sometimes it is easier to have physical symptoms that let you know that your body needs time to heal and that there is a future of good health. Infections, viruses, and common illnesses promise recovery. Struggling with mental illnesses has no promise of improving health, just a long maintenance road.

Productivity Offenders: Mental Health Problems

Those who struggle with a mental illness must take it one day at a time. Bipolar disorders, PTSD, or depression are silent productivity offenders robbing employees of their ambitions. Where physical illness defines a path toward recovery, mental illness does not.
Many who deal with mental illnesses cannot afford the solutions of treatment. Whether it is professional counseling or daily medication doses, those who struggle with mental illness cannot afford the means of treatment. Many choose to self-medicate with alcohol and/or drugs without proper diagnosis and treatment.

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05/10/2022

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