Articles tagged: mental health

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   A Guide to Overcoming Debilitating Personality Traits

   By Emma Carew Grovum and Yoohyun Jung

   Posted on September 6, 2017

   How to navigate tricky social interaction and personality traits, with advice from SRCCON 2017.

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   Ms. Management: Driving Our Employees Over the Edge

   By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

   Posted on July 19, 2017

   Our fetishisation of stoicism means we tend to dismiss deteriorating mental health breakdowns as mere distractions, best treated with an hour or so of venting to colleagues and several infusions of hard liquor.

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   Practical Tips for Improving Mental Health in the Newsroom

   By Joel Eastwood

   Posted on October 12, 2016

   Every year, roughly one in five American adults experiences a mental illness. Working in a newsroom poses particular challenges to mental health: the job typically involves a high-stress environment, long hours, tight deadlines, exposure to graphic images and videos, and an unstable industry with uncertain benefits and job security. This July in Portland at SRCCON, dozens of journalists, developers and newsroom workers sat down together to share their personal experiences with mental health.