Global business leaders and executives are facing an “ongoing crisis” of mental health, with stress among leaders at an all-time high Eduardo Greghi, CEO and Chairman of Swiss-based The Kusnacht Practice.
The topic of mental health has increasingly become of higher importance for businesses around the world over the last couple of years as the Covid-19 pandemic brought the topic to the fore.
Now, even leaders are having to adapt to higher degrees of stress, with burnout and adrenal fatigue on the cards for those that fail to get the help they need, Greghi said.
“I think it’s an ongoing crisis,” Greghi warned, before adding that the psychiatry industry around the world “doesn’t even have enough people who can treat the people who are suffering with mental illness today.”
“Now, imagine if you’re really struggling with dark thoughts if you if you’re having you know, severe anxiety, your only solution is to check herself into an emergency hospital where they cannot really help you mentally, they will give you some medication coming down but they cannot talk to you about what’s going on, and what are the underlying causes of distress,” Greghi said.
Mental health in general is a “world crisis of the modern world,” adding that the issue is exacerbated by a failure of businesses, friends, and colleagues to forgive those suffering.
“If you are if you are not performing in your life, also in your family, there will be consequences, and the consequences make it into a downward spiral in people’s lives, your finances and relationships are effected,” he said.
“The majority of the people will get severely affected by having somebody you know a loved one near them struggling with mental illness, substance use disorder, anxiety disorders, depression,” Greghi explained.
Aiming to tread mental illnesses is “hard,” he said, adding that the lack of understanding and stigmatism associated with mental health in society plays a role in preventing people seeking the help they need.
“People wait too long wait when they see a loved one suffering with mental illness, or substance and alcohol abuse. They just wait. If you knew that that person had the mental illness or had cancer, you will never wait to say, ‘No, I need to take to the hospital.’ We need to treat now,” he said.
To Greghi, someone suffering from anxiety or depression, “is no different than somebody suffering from cancer,” adding that there is treatment available but friends and family must “talk to the person.”
“The last thing I’ll say on this is it comes to an intervention; you don’t need to hire a professional interventionist. The simplest intervention is to tell your loved ones, ‘I love you. I don’t want to lose you,’” he concluded.
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