Should You Take Mental Health Days To Manage Work Stress? [HuffingtonPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/12/1712:00 PM

You may wake up one wintry, dreary weekday morning and say, "It's only Tuesday but it feels like Friday. I can't stand it. There is no way I can go in. That presentation will have to be rescheduled. I'm taking a mental health day and am calling in sick."

Ideally those mornings are very rare, if they happen at all. Rather than relax you, those moments of decision can cause huge stress and make going in to work easier than thinking about staying home.

The biggest challenge most of us have with mental health days is choosing when to take them and then wrestling with the resulting guilt. If arranged in advance to avoid disruption to your team and clients, a mental health day -- taken once every quarter -- is not going to stall your career. It could actually energize it.

[For more of this story, written by Evan Thompson, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...amp;utm_medium=email]

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