One in four people suffers from mental health issues in their lifetime, yet the stigma still attached to discussing it in some circles means it remains a delicate topic.
Those circles very much include places of work, where the fear of being labelled weak, incapable or hysterical by colleagues means many struggle in silence, rather than seek help. In the world of business and finance, and the professions that feed into those sectors, such as law, accounting and advertising, where staff often come under huge amounts of pressure to outperform, mental well-being has not historically been high up on the executive agenda.
Now, thanks in part to the increasing awareness raised by high profile cases such as the stress-related insomnia experienced by Lloyds Banking Group boss Antonio Horta-Osorio in 2011, it looks as if this could be changing.
[For more of this story, written by Julia Bradshaw, go to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...ntion-mental-health/]
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