How to Support a Coworker Who’s Going Through Acute Depression
Susannah Amezquita
Most people assume that when someone is struggling, whether physically or emotionally, it’s a close family member who will step in to help. Yet in many cases, the first person who notices something isn’t right isn’t a partner, parent, or sibling. It’s someone at work. That makes sense, doesn’t it? We often spend more waking hours with work colleagues than we do with our own families. We share deadlines, meetings, coffee breaks, laughs, and even tears between tasks. When someone starts pulling away, missing deadlines, or just seems different, it’s sometimes the people at work who pick up on it first. That means we have a unique opportunity, not to...
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