Excellent note by our Operations and HR Manager Sadie Hopkins about her experience at Resero UK on this #worldmentalhealthday 👇
Being as it’s World Mental Health day today and I am the Mental Health first aider at Resero UK I feel it necessary to share my own personal experience of recent mental health issues and the support I’ve received from my company. After struggling emotionally for some years now due to my sister’s ongoing cancer battle, the death of my father last year and an encounter with a man that attacked me years ago, my mind has finally popped. For the past few weeks, I have been battling with severe health anxiety and have never felt so poorly in my entire life. It’s been the most surreal, and most frightening thing I’ve ever been through. Initially I refused to believe that my symptoms could be related to the mind, they were just too severe, but after several weeks of tests and talking I have finally realised that my mind has caused it all. The mind is such a powerful thing. I believe (hope) I am now on the road to recovery. The route to my progress has been through the love and support of my family, friends & partner. The help of my GP and of course the support I have been shown by my company Resero UK. I have felt at ease in sharing with them what has been happening and I have felt no pressure whatsoever on the work front. I did not want to sign off from work with my illness and with the support of my managers I have been able to spend time working from home, only as and when I’ve felt up to it, with their full support. My colleagues are my friends, and they care about me, and I am hugely grateful for that and feel so lucky that I work for a company that takes mental health seriously and supports their staff through troubled times. If you find yourself struggling then talk about it, there is no shame in mental health battles. People generally understand as most of us will deal with some kind of mental health issue in our lifetimes. #mentalhealth #talking #understanding