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While many workplace injuries are seen in a physical injury that prevents work from being done because a person is now physically incapable, mental injuries are equally possible in the workplace. Psychiatric problems can be triggered by a variety of impulses at work; however, these injuries frequently go undiagnosed.
Psychiatric problems at work like depression and anxiety frequently go undiagnosed in the workplace which leads to both the health and the career of the employee being hurt. Additionally, the company is hurt by the undiagnosed psychiatric problem via reduced productivity and absenteeism. While many are quick to blame absenteeism as the biggest consequence of a mental illness, the bigger culprit is reduced productivity.
There are a variety of reasons for mental problems to go undiagnosed at work. The first reason is that many people refuse to be tested or to seek help because of the stigma attached to having a mental illness of some sort. The next reason is that a manager is not necessarily sure what he or she needs to look for in the employee in order to encourage the employee to get help.
Part of why managers have trouble encouraging employees to seek assistance for depression or anxiety or some other illness is that the symptoms shown at work may be very different from the symptoms shown elsewhere. This means that a person with depression could display an entirely different set of symptoms at work than the symptoms for which people have been taught to look. This makes things very different as one may need to be taught symptoms to look for in co-workers and symptoms to look for in friends.
Contact a Boston Workers' Compensation Attorney
If you or someone you know is suffering from psychiatric problems due to work, contact the Boston workers' compensation attorneys of Pulgini & Norton at 1-888-344-2046 to discuss the situation and to learn more about workers' compensation.
