{"id":7815,"date":"2017-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/it%c2%92s-2017-and-mental-health-is-still-an-issue-in-the-workplace\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:58:06","slug":"its-2017-and-mental-health-is-still-an-issue-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/its-2017-and-mental-health-is-still-an-issue-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 2017 and Mental Health is still an issue in the workplace."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email an employee sent to her CEO, and his response, went viral. Talking about Mental Health still carries a stigma, especially in many workplaces. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime. This is a great article that reminds us that talking openly about mental health is so important.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@OlarkLiveChat\/its-2017-and-mental-health-is-still-an-issue-in-the-workplace-61efbef092f\">It&#8217;s 2017 and Mental Health is still an issue in the workplace.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Last week a personal email I wrote was retweeted over 7,000 times, and liked by almost 30k people. I had friends reaching out to me stating that I was &#8220;Blowing up on their Twitter feed.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t expecting the exposure, but I am so glad I was able to have such a positive impact on so many people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email an employee sent to her CEO, and his response, went viral. Talking about Mental Health still carries a stigma, especially in many workplaces. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime. This is a great article that reminds us that talking openly about mental health is so important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1200\/0*rVtUbZ1LPSCOI94H.","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-7815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-mental_health","9":"tag-stress_management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions\/7953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}