What's the price you put on your own sanity ;
Most of all, what are the upper monetary costs you are willing to let go for them?
How Much Do You Value Your Mental Health?
capslock janitor on 24/06/2021 - 23:34
Last edited 25/06/2021 - 00:29
Last edited 25/06/2021 - 00:29
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The misso.
That is the cost.
Money saved and being able to do things without compromise is the profit
YMMVBeen in enough 1 sided relationships to know that sticking around for someone is not worth your sanity.
When you put a price tag on things, it loses its intrinsic value.
Monetisation may lead to a lost of our human values.
Your question could be rephrased to, What's the asking price, to sell your "soul"?
my soul is intact and untouched by it
dead concept.
Perhaps might be an unpopular take, but I find that the less I think about my mental health, the better. Find that the more I think about my mental health, the more I pick out problems, the more reasons I find to be unhappy…etc. I've just come to expect that life is best lived in flux - enjoying each day as it comes.
Long-term mental health problems are only caused by incidents that are outside of the person's control. For example, post-traumatic stress disorder after an assault, or anxiety & depression caused by abusive parents.
Things such as stress from a bad work environment won't cause long-term psychological problems & the stress will go away when you leave the job.
My point is that there is no "cost" that a person can bear to avoid mental health problems. If you were unlucky enough to be the victim of assault or terrible parenting, then you couldn't have paid some cost to avoid these incidents.
Aren't there people that have chronic depression without a particular incident?
This is bullshit. None of that dribble is supported by current medical evidence.
"How much do you Value your Mental Health?"
I work in hospitality so I feel like I have to ask………what's mental health?
ROFL, like asking a mad person ?
Are you mad?
Nah I am mad you asked.
Or
Are you mad ?In other words
If you are mad, would you even know you were mad.
So what are you asking me?
Of course unless you are mad, you won’t know what I am saying.
And I must be mad for writing all the above.
I guess you mean mental comfort?
If you have bipolar or depression it’s not like you are doing so to save on treatment, at least I can’t imagine anybody doing so.I'm a sole trader and I bill per hour. I used to do 50-60 hour weeks a few years back. I decided that the money was not worth it for the deterioration in my mental health. I dialed my weeks back to 40-45 hours a week.
If I felt my mental health is going bad, I will stop work for a week and focus on exercising, eating well and sleeping enough.
If you let your mental health go, it spirals and gets worse.I am a sole trader too. I earn a very modest income, but my mental health is much better off for it. To be able to take time off when I need to, without needing to explain myself to anyone, is priceless. I am very uncomfortable with the idea of a full time job, especially being locked up in an office 5 days a week.
appreciate the insightful comments
If you all were to put a $ figure on it, how much are you comfortable giving up (so the problem/s go away sooner) ?
Looking after my mental health and maintaining my sanity is very crucial to me, not as in to be happy but crucial to live. I tried working part time (7.25 to 29 hours a week) and studying full time but that didn't work for me - work related stress, uni stress, not getting enough sleep, poor diet, and past trauma led me to try and fail in killing myself - not the first time I've been suicidal or tried.
I'm now studying part time and working during the uni holidays, money income is now a problem, I can't afford to just buy something if I like, but at least I'm a live and that's the priority for meAlso, peoples attitude, response to last year's R U OK day on OzBargain really have me this shits.
Take it or leave it at this point.
How much do you value your health full stop ? It is the most important thing you can value, so I would say its priceless.