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Oct 14, 2013, 01:04 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by medicalfox
Why is the medical field so bad in regards to employees having mental illnesses?
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I don't have a great answer for that, but after working in healthcare for over ten years there tends to be a culture of 'suck it up.' I don't know if it's part of the culture of not showing our emotions/staying strong in the face of all of the terrible things we see, and somehow this carries over to how mental illness amongst employees is viewed (high value on keeping your emotions in check). Maybe, because of the nature of our work, caring for very vulnerable people, there is a higher bar as far as how mentally healthy we need to be to be able to help these people. Maybe both, maybe more.
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