mental health

We had a lunch-time meeting with the director of the firms new Employee Assistance Program. Its basically a mental health outreach program that more than just drug abuse, depression, grief, counseling etc. Its supposed to be an anonymous program where anyone and their families can get help from as a first step for advice, etc. Before the session started someone commented aside that the people who needed to be in the room weren't. During the session the director commented on the need for preemptive and proactive action to address these issues. I raised the question that how would you know if you needed help if things appeared to be fine to  you. His response was that if smeone commented to you that something semed off, that's probably a good time to call. Although by the time people get around to making the call its a lot harder to fix things have have been going wrong for a root reason that could have been avoided years back.

 

I wonder of there is some gauge for mental health stnadards that one cuold take to figure out if you do have something wrong before you know it for certain. There probably is.