When I first read the Canadian Mental Health Association’s press release about their 56th annual mental health week, I thought it was from a coaching association. I.e. the focus on life career balance issue is a very common issue that we coaches deal with, especially those of us who coach adults with attention deficit disorder, who often seem to go-go-go until they end up spinning their wheels going nowhere, crash or burn out.
Self care activities and working on life career balance issues are hugely important for ADDers, who often tend towards perfectionism, workaholism and putting themselves last.
Here’s their list of the CMHA’s BC related activities including lower mainland ones. I have a list of provincial Canadian Mental Health Association Branches on my ADD website
Here are some of their tips for work life balance. If you think you’re life maybe out of balance, why not try their complete Work-Life Balance Quiz
Perhaps you want to read their business case for work life balance, which I believe will be more and more important in an economy where there’s increasingly more jobs available than workers to fill them. The semi dictator/tyrant type boss may be a more endangered species in this new labour situation:)
Unfortunately during mental health week, the BC ADHD Clinic at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver is still barring the doors to adults with Attention Deficit Disorder from getting diagnosed at their clinic . I phoned them yesterday and they’re still not accepting new adults to be tested for ADHD.
Apparently the people in charge of the hospital, the Provincial Health Services Authority who governs the hospital, and the BC premier, Gordon Campbell premier@gov.bc.ca ph 604 660-3202, and George Abbott Minister of Health george.abbott.mla@leg.bc.ca ph 1 877 771-7557 don’t seem to care that much about mental health, or at least about those of us who are adults with attention deficit disorder.
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“Self care activities and working on life career balance issues are hugely important for ADDers, who often tend towards perfectionism, workaholism and putting themselves last.”
Amen. No kidding. For sure.
I’m very happy to see the increased attention that happiness and living are receiving within the business and popular presses. I wish, though, that we could come up with a better term than “work-life balance”. The term sadly implies that work and life are separate things — when, of course, work is actually *part of* life.
very true Phil, a better term would be useful.
work/ home or personal balance describes it better but kind of an awkward term. i guess the term came from the era when some people had almost no life outside of work.