Caroline O'Donoghue: Were we all mentally unwell, or was our job making us sick?
A few years ago, I worked at a place that considered itself to be extremely liberal. I don’t know, now, if a business can be ‘liberal’.
Considering the aim of all businesses is, by definition, to make as much profit for as little overhead as possible, you wonder if that doesn’t sort of make all businesses the same, regardless of what they put in the newsletter. Anyway. One day, at this extremely liberal workplace, a co- worker had a panic attack during an office-wide meeting. She was in the middle of reading something out loud, stopped, and started to have trouble breathing. She said: “I’m sorry, I think I’m having an anxiety attack.” The person leading the meeting was extremely empathetic.
