
The mental health report card
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At the workplace
Low-scoring behaviour■ You have many projects ‘halfway done’. You say yes when asked to take on new jobs, but struggle to finish them.
■ You have an important project to complete but keep getting distracted by emails, colleagues, meetings … all of which you feel must be responded to immediately.■ You are often irritable with colleagues or complain of headaches, neck or back pain.
High-scoring behaviour■ You have a discipline of arriving and leaving work generally at determined times.■ When colleagues ask for ‘favours’, you think about your current tasks before either accepting or refusing politely.■ When something urgent or unexpected occurs, you do not panic; you feel you can handle it by shifting some other things off today’s list.
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