Workplace Wellbeing: Striving to end stigma surrounding mental health

Attitudes to disclosing mental health issues in the workplace are gradually changing and employers can help by focusing on employees’ strengths rather than their weaknesses

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Gary Kiernan from Clare experienced a mental health crisis in 2018.

The now 60-year-old general manager with Tusla hadn’t realised that he had been living with severe recurrent depression for years.