The month of September brought with it an important alert to the entire population, it is necessary to pay attention to the care with emotional and mental health. The Yellow September, a suicide prevention campaign, was the motto of the lecture given by Grupo Aço Cearense to its employees from units located in Ceará, Para and Tocantins. The meeting was held last Tuesday (29) online.
Psychologists Lígiane Santiago and Tamyres Barbosa, talked to employees about the importance of maintaining a pleasant environment and identifying emotional triggers that can cause depression and anxiety.
“When companies open space to address the yellow September theme, we have the opportunity to give more people access to information and establish a more open dialogue, after all, the reality is that there are rare times that people talk about suicide in the workplace. job.
Lectures on welcoming and preventing suicide in companies can offer a support tool for employees, through preventive responses, dialogue with psychologists, information for a person who is suffering in silence, as well as for those co-workers close to the person in question. risk ”, explains Lígiane Santiago.
Collaborator Elaine Marcia Xavier, from SINOBRAS, a Group company located in Marabá-PA, found the lecture very didactic and important. “We shouldn’t judge but offer help, depression is not cool.
People who commit suicide do not want to die, they want to escape suffering. We have to be attentive and offer help because suicide is not, and should never be, an option. Life is the most precious asset we have and we need to fight daily for it ”, said the collaborator.
In addition to the lecture, all the Group’s managers received an orientation guide in identifying the warning signs. More than showing these signs that employees can give in relation to emotional health, the guide contributes with actions that can help the manager in referring this employee to a health professional
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