Workshop: 'Under Pressure: Character, Certainty, Conspiracy'

How people change (or fail to) under pressure, false certainty and misinformation

Institute for Ethics & Society Workshop - Thursday 3 September 2026

10:00 am – 4:30 pm (AEST)

In an age of outrage, algorithms and information overload, how do we become people of resilient character, humble conviction and wise discernment? Drawing on several funded research projects in Europe and Australia, this workshop explores how pressure exposes the heart and yet shapes the self, how self-righteousness quietly corrupts our capacity for knowledge and understanding of self and others, and how conspiracy theories and AI-generated “slopaganda” shape the way we see the world.

The IES is pleased to host this event on the occasion of Laura Candiotto’s visit to Sydney. Laura is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy (Universities of Cagliari and Pardubice). She currently leads two research projects, including ‘Vicious Epistemic Cultures’ on the ethics of knowledge with a specific focus on emotional friction in revision responsibility, funded by the Czech Science Foundation. Laura is currently working on a monograph, Emotional Friction, and a co-edited collection entitled Vice Epistemology and the Philosophy of Emotions (Routledge).

 

SPEAKERS

Laura Candiotto (Cagliari and Pardubice) ‘Character revision under duress’

 

John Lippitt (Notre Dame IES and Pardubice) ‘Failures of receptivity: self-righteousness as a stealthy vice’

 

Adam Piovarchy (Notre Dame IES) ‘Conspiracy theories are Infohazards’

 

Mark Alfano (Macquarie) ‘Slopaganda’

Event poster: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/NdGNCq712YtRgVKVFXhKphE8bFg?domain=notredame.edu.au

 

Location:

The University of Notre Dame Australia,

NDS23/102 (Wilcox Mofflin Building)

46-52 Mountain Street Ultimo, NSW, 2007

 

Or online via Teams

For enquiries, Teams link and to RSVP:

Professor John Lippitt (john.lippitt AT nd.edu.au)

My source: Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Recent posts can also be read in a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/ Follow the list on Twitter @PhilosL. Follow the Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhilos

Free online mindfulness programme & ¥3800 (≈ £20) reward - research study

Dear all,

My name is Francesco Saldarini. I am a postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey. My research focuses on investigating the (potential) effects of mind-body practices (e.g., mindfulness and martial arts) on psychology.

I am running a longitudinal intervention study investigating the effects of a digital mindfulness-based programme on a variety of health and cognitive outcomes and I would like to invite you to participate.

The study takes place entirely online and will require you to participate in two or three main experimental sessions, when you will be asked to complete a task and answer some questions. Each session will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. Moreover, you will get to participate in an online NHS-approved mindfulness-based programme! The programme is pre-recorded and you can flexibly choose when to attend a session. I will also reward you ¥3800 (≈ £20) for your participation.

This study was approved by the Waseda University research ethics committee (REF : 2024 - 314).

If you are interested in participating in the study and wish to know more about it, please contact me at:
w.iac23317 AT kurenai.waseda.jp.

Basic inclusion criteria:

- Currently feeling stressed
- Between 18 and 65 years of age
- Willing to complete a screening questionnaire
- No previous mindfulness experience
- Willing to practice mindfulness for minimum 2 hours per week for 4 weeks

Thank you,

Francesco Saldarini

My source: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=VIRTUAL-METHODS

"David Lynch: A Thinking Room"

Where is the Thinking Room?

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Ah! Surely this one? It's deep!	Is it here? This is deep too! Please take a chair.
I trust you are comfortable, so what about this place?	Yes, you can think here - but you must check first before you do: Think.  If you must ... N.B. Please rate your experience too.

Soraya Roberts. A Room Of His Own, FT Magazine, 30-31 March, 2024, 1067: pp.38-41.

https://www.ft.com/content/bf6a6eaa-30d1-4704-9aea-4ff2d117f407

David Lynch’s dreamlike rooms at the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024:
https://www.salonemilano.it/en/articles/david-lynchs-dreamlike-rooms-salone-del-mobilemilano-2024

What sort of field is 'nursing'? (i)

. . . It is NOT 'relaxed'.

My copy of Harris (2015) is secondhand, £8.50 from 'Green Ink' in Hay-on-Wye last November. 

Apparently, the (professional - high-level) study of mathematics is a relaxed field. McCleary reviews the book and the good, truth, and beauty of mathematics; 'relaxed field' relates to the latter:

Mathematics without Apologies:
Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

"That leaves beauty, the deepest source for Hardy, and the most challenging motivation for mathematical activity. Challenging because it calls into question how external support of mathematics is justified. Hardy tells us that “a mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns.” Throwing mathematicians in with the painters and poets leads to justification of mathematics as an art. Harris situates his discussion of beauty in the notion of play. Play needs to take place in a “relaxed field,” a notion introduced by ethologist Gordon Burghardt to describe animal behavior when not preoccupied with food, mating, territory, or predators—'the opposite of stress.'"

John McCleary, Book Review, NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 10 pp.1280-1283. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201810/rnoti-p1280.pdf 

Talk of absolutes is common in mathematics. There is absolutely no mathematician involved in the writing of this post and others. That said, I have been privileged to work in a 'relaxed' manner.* When I trained mental health and then general nursing, we were part of the 'numbers' on the duty-rota. Your presence was not just a matter of learning, there were concrete things - tasks - to do. Completing the Community Psychiatric Nursing Certificate course 1987-8, involved a secondment to another community team (thank you Bolton!). My caseload was left to the support of colleagues, so I could concentrate on the course. A course in which Brian Hodges (not Wilfred Hodges - the  logician) taught his eponymous model. Post-Project 2000 with nurse education an undergraduate pursuit, students were designated supernumerary. Student nurse finances are precarious, worthy of a post in itself. 

If relaxed and stress are opposites, nurses would seek to be 'relaxed'** suffice to have the time and resources to deliver care safely, professionally and to a high standard. Adequate time + resources also brings a dividend: person-centredness, health promotion and education, preventing relapse. As it stands, however, for nurses be they students or qualified, nursing is far from relaxed.

tbc... ii

Harris, M. (2015) Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation. Princeton University Press.

*But without the charisma Harris describes.

**The notion of slack resource could be applied, space for creativity and innovation in assessment, planning, interventions (case formulation) and evaluation.

See also: 'Four Fields'

'Health' is a Many-Splendoured Thing c/o BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box Live: Rental Health Special

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Mental health, Well-being Quality of Life Lived experience Anxiety, Stress, Distress Debt fear Individual vulnerability	Life in Cities Built environment - Urbanisation Human Geographies (Social) Housing Air Pollution, Repair, Damp, Mould, Noise Access to Green S pac es Land-
Social Housing Community - Family, Social cohesion Social inclusion - Social justice Group - Population vulnerability Socio-Economic - Determinants of Health Social poverty 'Living' Wage Good/Bad Tenants/Landlords?	-Lords

Money Box

"Felicity Hannah and Winifred Robinson take questions on the legal rights of renters with experts Jasmine Basran from the housing and homelessness charity Crisis and Tessa Shepperson founder of the The Landlord Law Services she advises landlords of their legal rights and responsibilities.

The number of people renting across England, Wales and Scotland has more than doubled in the last decade.

The picture in Northern Ireland is similar with the numbers of people renting is up by nearly 2 thirds in the last 20 years."

See also: Rental Health

Read in FT Weekend - hopefully the link will work for you:
Lessons from Vienna: a housing success story 100 years in the making

Previous posts: 'Homeless'

Armed Forces: 'Shell Shock'

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SHOCK ... but the opposite can hold true for psychological trauma, an injury as insidious as it is invisible."	"It is often said that time heals all wounds - maybe ... shell(s)
'Theatre' of ...	"A Brave Face"

Matthew Green, Aftershock 

"shell shock" - Charles Myers, February 1915, Case One, The Lancet.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014067360052916X

https://www.vamostheatre.co.uk/shows/show/a-brave-face

My source: Green, M. The home front, FTWeekend, Life&Arts, 25-26 August 2018. pp.1-2.

Book* - "Healing Spaces"

- plus, five care knowledge domains*

and a question...?

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	'Healing Spaces' by Esther H. Sternberg
	"What is missing from the book is a precise figure on just how great a contribution a restful atmosphere makes to healing - something health chiefs are sure to demand before making changes in our hospitals. Nevertheless, it provides a pleasant glimpse of the possible future of rest and recuperation." p.45.

Which, if any, healing space - or care domain in Hodges' model should be the priority?

 

Justify your choice and subsequent ordering.

My source:
Geddes, L. (2009) Books&Arts, A view to recovery, New Scientist, 9 May 2009, 202:2707. p.45.

See also:
Ulrich, R. (1984) View through a window may influence recovery from surgery. Science, 224: 4647, 420.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6143402

BAD or FAB? Let the individual (child?) decide ..

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BaD	FaB
FaB	BaD

BaD: Betting and Despair
FaB: Football and Betting

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news/fa-cup-games-stream-betting-website-bet365-review-broadcast-rights-heads-up-mental-health-awareness-a9274791.html

#children
#publicMENTALhealth
#vulnerability
#exposure
#mentalpollution

#BeautifulGame? 

Important new service #GamblingClinic #Sunderland@KendalICC @BarrowIcc @ulvdaltICC @Supergios @TheThewell2 @aaroncumminsNHS @claretwiggpeckh @JoConnolly_ @janet_folland @UKABIF @HeadwayUK https://t.co/6amCC1Gh4e

— ✨Glenys Marriott✨ (@cumpstonarchive) January 9, 2020

Take Two Concepts, One Life, 114,000 Lives Saved, 204 Lost*

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James	HELMETS
Le Mesurier

See also:

John Le Mesurier, The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/james-le-mesurier-death-white-helmets-syria-russia-propaganda-a9204896.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)

* and counting ...

'Muchness' - Enabling nurses to be more person-centred within their workplace culture: participatory research

Are you a nurse interested in staff well-being? Would you like to be involved in a participatory research study, exploring the idea of 'muchness' (subjective experience of well-being) & how it can be nurtured in the workplace. If so, please visit: https://t.co/XXQjnT8HlI pic.twitter.com/rF7Y9NgcTS

— Kate Sanders (@Kateatfons) April 18, 2019

"Bank of England shows green light for mental health drive" c/o The Times

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Mental Health Awareness Week
	Mental Health Funding Mental Health Green Paper Mental Health White Paper Recovery Space

See also:
Money and Mental Health

My source: Green light for mental health drive, The Times. 14 May 2018, p.36.

... back to Drupal! ;-)

Four forms of Recovery? Hodges' model and the Political Domain

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Recovery?	Recovery?
Recovery?

Five forms in fact including the spiritual...

See also:
Jones P. (2014) Using a conceptual framework to explore the dimensions of recovery and their relationship to service user choice and self-determination. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine. Vol 3, No 4, (2013) pp.305-311.

Mental Health & Debt

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Trauma: A definition c/o @fomsf_UWE

Dr Rajwani on the refugee crisis: a trauma narrative. #SoGlo #SoGlo2018 #medicine #war #msf #globalhealth #notatarget pic.twitter.com/JcuLhuxASg

— UWE Friends of MSF (@fomsf_uwe) February 24, 2018

Resized image @fomsf_uwe

Trauma "a universal aspect of human experience in which individuals and groups have to undergo or bear certain burdens, troubles and serious wounds to the body and spirit". p.205.

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SPIRIT burdens troubles	BODY serious wounds
(ethnography, multicultural practice)	(refugees, mental health providers)

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak (2004) Training Refugee Mental Health Providers: Ethnography as a Bridge to Multicultural Practice. Human Organization: Summer 2004, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 203-210.

Out Lines

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Source: The Sunday Times, Culture, On Record, 29 October, 2017. p.22.

World Mental Health Day: Using Hodges' model to anticipate...

.... a Person's reaction to Respite Care

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cognitive problems - usual routine prior visits - positive experience personal space person-centred approach - listened to, acknowledged, afforded dignity and respect able to 'exercise' choice even if a struggle non-verbal communication mood, withdrawal, behaviour change facial appearance, voices (unconscious?) reminder of friend or foe from distant past? staff knowledge of person - likes / dislikes - favoured activities, distractions personal care preferences recognising distress, anxiety sleep pattern disturbance

ambiance - atmosphere safety noise, smell sense of constructive activities temperature impact of visual cues, case, travel bag, coat.. impact of infections ventilation, draughts variety of spaces, large, small, able to gravitate towards preferred places places to wander access to garden territory "That's my chair!" comfort, chair, bed, pillows... belongings, valuables (avoid)

assessment at client's own home personal-social history degree of dependency negotiating goodbyes, hellos personalities of care staff, other residents clash of personalities or developing attachments, other resident mistaken for spouse? life experience, forces, disinhibition at various levels, invading someone's personal space, taking their things, touching them, 'surprising' them to visit or not - friends other family? cost of care - time away from home?

contingency plans (contacts) if agitated, acutely distressed, aggression diversity - residents and staff mental capacity deprivation of liberty locked doors observation 24 hour checks - (expect the unexpected) staff uniform or non-uniform the political ambiance - homely, cold - impersonal, formal community nurse follow-up - alt assessment environment authoritarian - fixed routine 'house rules' cost of care - funding?

World Mental Health Day

Event: 'Critical Thinking and Health in Music Education' mapped to Hodges' model

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psychology reflection - CRITICAL THINKING (training) psychological demands of training health and well-being impacts - stress, anxiety, depression... pressure on individual to change lifestyle neuromyths - beliefs individual attitude, health literacy through related knowledge and skills Socratic method individual courage assertiveness	music education literature evidence - research musical instruments physical human - player instrumental demands practice, environment health and well-being impacts - musculoskeletal, neurological, audiological... rigour in empirical investigations question formulation
culture - tradition (norms and myths) expectations of peers and seniors group discussion socialisation conservative - conformity history, social change 'cohort courage'	high standards professional attitudes empowerment, self-advocacy citizens - world view policy and management practices

socio-political

Please see the original post for the - context and event details 14 Nov 2017

The context of music education and specifically what sounds like the socio-politics of education reminds of the healthcare. That is the socialisation of healthcare professionals. I can see this as a former student nurse and today with student nurses and many workplace conversations with doctors. The experiences and attitudes towards junior doctors and the hours they work stand out. Not all of course, but many juniors found the most vociferous defenders of the status quo were the Senior Consultants. This could be summed up as: "It was good enough for us....!"

I picked up a euphonium at school. Yes, her name was Denise and she was in the school brass band. I quickly put the instrument down, preferring the fields and woods after school. The heart strings still resonate though a great many decades later. Discovering the guitar since and Raluca Matei and her colleagues planned event I can appreciate the word 'interface' in a new way. This is learning not just the music, but that special interface between the musical instrumental and the would-be player.

There is also a sense that Hodges' model is an instrument and interface ...?

'Critical Thinking and Health in Music Education' 14 Nov 2017 Manchester

Raluca Matei posted this item to the Mental Health in Higher Education hub. The resonances with the purposes of Hodges' model are clear to me. With Raluca's permission I will map the themes of this event to Hodges' model in a further post. There is no primary link for the event itself, please see the contact details below:

Dear All,

My name is Raluca and I am an AHRC-funded PhD student in psychology and health promotion among musicians, at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), in Manchester. Together with Keith Phillips, a fellow PhD student in music psychology, we are organising ‘Critical thinking and health and music education’, a one-day event to be held at RNCM, on 14 November 2017, with funding from the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP).

OK…but why do that at all? 

• The physical and psychological demands of the training and practice that musicians must achieve to perform to a high standard on their instruments can produce deleterious effects on health and wellbeing, arising mostly from musculoskeletal, neurological and audiological causes. 
• Although there is a need for more rigour in the empirical investigation of potential interventions to address musicians’ health and wellbeing, British conservatoires remain guided more by tradition than the available evidence. Their websites still endorse practices that are either not supported by research (despite their popularity among musicians) or are so poorly defined that they can hardly be researched and investigated. This retrograde outlook encourages a rather conservative and conformist attitude that is prevalent among musicians. 
• An unfair emphasis on individuals to enact changes in lifestyle is continuously being pushed, while the larger cultural, social and environmental factors remain vastly unaltered and particularly resistant to change. 
• We argue that the above are at least partially due to the lack of critical thinking training and health education among music students and their teachers. Introducing such training might not only increase their health literacy (i.e. the achievement of health-related knowledge and relevant set of skills), but also empower them individually and as a group to question the status quo and assertively demand for changes to be made accordingly, to their own benefit, rather than submissively adapt to cultural norms informed by the mere passage of time and the burden of tradition. 
• Although such changes require considerable resources and never happen immediately, we argue that we need to start by asking questions. The literature suggests that critical thinking needs specific training and doesn’t necessarily happen by itself, especially given that one would need exceptional courage and to assume some risk to go against ingrained cultural norms. 
• Given that the role of higher education is not solely to prepare students for existing jobs but also to turn them into informed citizens, critical thinking can help them to shape the world and to embody the change they want to see. In addition, efforts focused on changing policy and management practices might be more effective, realistic and beneficial for a larger number of people than solely attempting to change individuals. 

And what are you aiming for? 

• To raise awareness of and debunk various myths that are being circulated in music education in relation to psychology and health
• To discuss about the importance of critical thinking in education and what the available literature tells us about effective interventions aimed at training it
• To discuss how we can, as researchers, bridge the gap between the evidence and the practical real world, as well as educational policies
• To discuss the findings of the first paper on neuromyths among music teachers and how these might inform future practice 
• To discuss potential ways in which the specific training of critical thinking could be incorporated into the pedagogical training of musicians
• To address the link between critical thinking and health promotion in music education 
• To discuss how the Socratic method might be used in training critical thinking 
• To brainstorm ideas on how critical thinking and psychology might be incorporated as part of musicians’ formal training – examples will be provided from the latest research in the field 

How would I benefit from this?

• Free access to an interdisciplinary, ground-breaking event on critical thinking in higher education

• The chance to be innovative within your own field and even initiate new professional pathways

• The opportunity to meet students, researchers and practitioners from your field of interest, as well as from related fields

• The opportunity to have your ideas discussed within an exploratory round table discussion, given that we will allow plenty of room for this!

Our speakers include:

• Prof. Reinhard Kopiez, Professor of Music Psychology, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
• Prof. Jane Ogden, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey

The event will incorporate a considerable amount of group discussion, in an attempt to dive into a rather innovative field and hopefully reach some meaningful conclusions and suggest a few solutions. 

Our event is highly interdisciplinary, and it is open to postgraduate students, researchers and specialists in:

• Music (Performance and Education)
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Education sciences and policy
• Medicine (with a focus on health education, health promotion and prevention, as well as public health)
• Science journalism/Science communication 

Although attendance is free, places are limited and registration will be based on a brief expression of interest. We ask potential participants to explain the nature of their research, interests and/or background, and detail why this event is relevant to them in writing to us by Sunday, 15 October 2017. 

Finally, we will keep the format and content flexible and depending on the background and interests of attendees, the conversations we will be having can follow various pathways. 

Raluca Matei – ... 

Keith Phillips – ... 

Please do email one of us for further details. Additionally, If you could please forward this to any relevant postgraduate students, researchers and/or specialists, I would be immensely grateful! 

With many thanks and kind wishes,

Raluca

Raluca Matei MSc, BMus, MBPsS

AHRC-funded PhD student in psychology and health promotion 

Royal Northern College of Music, 

Manchester

...

I am looking f/w to attending. PJ 

"Get in that corner! Now!"

"Which one?"

"Don't you be so hard-faced with me.
Go!"

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Money and Mental Health [ii] OVERSTRETCHED, OVERDRAWN, UNDERSERVED

Following on from - Money and Mental Health [i] Impact of Mass Unemployment Events (MUEs)

I have been familiar with the relationship between mental health and finance since student days in the late 1970s. Debt was and remains a profound and common problem. This can exacerbate existing mental health problems or it be the trigger - the straw that breaks the camel's back. From the report:

One in four people with a mental health problem is also in problem debt, and half of people in financial difficulties have a mental health problem (p. 13).

Finance still has this impact whether it is a lack of basic financial skills (literacy), life chances and opportunity or attributed to bad luck. Speaking of 'luck': I have frequently felt angry and frustrated with government policy. It is common sense and statistically inevitable that within the population there will be people who are vulnerable to addiction of many sorts. Why make it easier for those who are vulnerable to potentially loose everything? Not only that but money impacts all those in vulnerable groups, not just people in work. When we talk of health inequality what is the biggest factor? I've come across instances of elderly people receiving scam mail and not just the 'odd' post. While within Hodges' model below I have family as a resource, sadly this can also be part of a problem.

'Productivity' looms large in the report and draws a rueful smile here. In the NHS productivity and its increase is a constant requirement. In the general economy UK productivity is low and seemingly stuck. Successive governments have failed and now with Brexit productivity is still on life-support.

In the report 'financial fragility' is a very useful construct (as with circumstantial, rather than careless overspending). The public sector is also highlighted in this regard:

Forecasts suggest that 5.4 million public sector workers, one in six of the UK workforce, will be worse off in 2020 than they were in 2010 (p.16).

Before you view the report itself and the small conceptual sampling in Hodges' model, the report refers to the hidden epidemic that this report seeks to highlight and represent. This government and successive, nationally and globally need to get to grips - somehow - with the hidden economy - parts of which are blatantly obvious in the subterfuge around tax avoidance. This is another relationship that operates upon us all - employed, unemployed, young and aged - and which Hodges' model can also help illuminate.


Evans, K., Holkar, M., Murray, N. (2017) OVERSTRETCHED,OVERDRAWN, UNDERSERVED: financial difficulty and mental health at work, The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, May 2017.

What follows is drawn from the report above - with a couple of additions:

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[May THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY]  (including nursing) MENTAL HEALTH hidden epidemic ... over two thirds (67%) of employees who are struggling financially report at least one sign of poor mental health that could affect their ability to function at work loss of sleep, poor concentration, reduced motivation, preoccupation Increased risk taking (impact - occupation...?) Guilt/shame Anxiety Low self-esteem Anger Frustration Fear Low mood Self-harm Suicidal ideation Insomnia Panic attacks Depression, Lethargy/apathy Substance misuse [... starts here!]

PRODUCTIVITY Physical effects of anxiety, stress, alcohol, smoking (increase, relapse), other substance misuse physical fragility (lack of resilience) Nearly half (45%) of all working days lost to ill health were a result of stress in 2015/16 – adding up to 11.7 million days across the economy. work access to:   "on-site exercise facilities, healthy  food and rest spaces" hidden morbidity

Influence of individual mental health on colleagues, team morale and cohesiveness fear of bailiffs - seen by others at my door pressure on relationships conflict at work family breakdown shame, guilt, stigma social support, friends, family, colleagues

WORK THE ECONOMY "Money and Mental Health will set out the case for employers to provide practical support to employees experiencing financial difficulty, and how this could boost the mental health, wellbeing and resilience of their workforce." "financial fragility" Creditor action poor performance, punctuality, reliability disciplinary action OCCUPATION HEALTH services - counselling / advice Individual's awareness of Rights the hidden economy

Thanks and Acknowledgement to The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute