Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
October 30, 2006, Vol. 06-104B

Online Brochure: Mental Health: It's Part of Our Lives at Work

One in five people in a typical U.S. office is likely to experience a mental illness each year. Experts increasingly acknowledge that work is a key factor in supporting mental wellness and warding off symptoms of mental illness. Work also can help people with mental illnesses as they go through the process of recovery.

Mental Health: It's Part of Our Lives at Work is an online brochure that offers information about mental health in the workplace. It reviews the potential risks and benefits of telling your employer that you have a mental illness, and offers links to resources that provide information on mental health problems within the context of work. The brochure is available online from The SAMHSA Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center) at http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/publications/livesatwork.aspx. The ADS Center works to counter stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness.

Please use this and our other online resources to counter stigma and discrimination in your community!

We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions: promoteacceptance@samhsa.hhs.gov.

The SAMHSA ADS Center is a program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services.

About the SAMHSA ADS Center SAMHSA's Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center) helps people design, implement and operate programs that reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illnesses. With the most up-to-date research and information, the ADS Center helps individuals, organizations, and governments counter such discrimination and stigma in the community, in the workplace, and in the media.

*************************************************
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list, please visit the Consumer Survivor page of the Center for Mental Health Services Web site at: http://samhsa.gov/consumersurvivor/

The Center for Mental Health Services is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services.