This article is part one of a series demonstrating the necessity of understanding the reasons BEHIND illness in order to successfully improve wellness at work. This will also help understand the rising new phenomenom of ‘presenteeism’ – employees who turn up for work who are not present, functional or productive’.
Nervous Breakdown or Breakthrough?
What I eventually learnt was that a mental breakdown can actually be a mental breakthrough. A breakthrough to a new level of consciousness, a new world view, a new perception of reality. And in order for that to happen, the old has to be demolished, just like an old building has to be demolished before a new one can be built….