Mental Health @ Work Cheat Sheet

Roel Timmermans
Management Matters
Published in
5 min readAug 26, 2024

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Going to work feeling like climbing Mt. Everest?
Not exactly what you want to feel like right?

Rather have the TL:DR;? Just scroll down to the Cheat Sheet.

We all should have the right to love what we do

Remember the last time your Sunday evening felt like you were only worrying about going to work on Monday? It should not feel like that. Often this is not just for having a lot of things on the to-do list.

It can be a culmination of things unadressed:

  • feeling like you can’t say “no”;
  • the never ending meetings;
  • the bragging about overtime being put in.

You go to work and then you come home tired.

While really, shouldn’t we come home energized, feeling like we had fun, attributed to something, created things?

I have been there, you probably have. Doesn’t really add much joy to your life right?

Maybe you caught yourself sitting down thinking:
🤷‍♂️ What happened here?

The lack of Mental Health awareness happened.

What causes Mental Health to be a taboo?

One thing for sure is this, it’s changing for the better. However, we’re coming from generations that:

  • Glamorised overtime

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Roel Timmermans
Management Matters

Driver of Human 1st Workplace Culture. Leadership, culture, team motivation