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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Mentally ill face workplace stigma Top earners face the same stigma as other employees of an organization. Britain’s leading disability campaign group, Radar, has found that executives with mental health problems are being forced to suffer in silence at work with increasing intolerance towards mental disabilities. The study done by Radar is the first UK study of high-earning disabled workers. The study found that employees with a history of medical problems such as bipolar disorder or clinical depression were four times as likely to keep their illness secret than employees with other disabilities. Mental illness still is stigmatized against and only a few of the top earners are willing to disclose their mental illness. Liz Sayce, chief executive of Radar, said: "There is a common pattern that people's comfort level is higher with colleagues in a wheelchair or with diabetes; they are slightly less comfortable with people with sensory disabilities and they are far less comfortable with mental illness. What we need is a complete change in culture." Research done by the Department of Health last year showed that attitudes towards people with mental illnesses have gotten worse over the last 15 years. The Radar study - of people with disabilities earning more than Ł40,000 a year - showed 15% of those with mental health problems did not disclose them to anybody at work, compared with just 4% for other disabled people. The difference can be explained by the visible nature of conditions such as blindness or paraplegia, people with learning difficulties and other such non-visible conditions were also far less secretive. Only one in five people with mental health problems told their employer's human resources department and about a third told their immediate line manager. Ms Sayce says it is up to senior managers to create a culture acknowledging that many staff members would suffer from a mental health problem at some point in their life. She said that line managers needed to be given better guidance to deal with mental health in the workplace. Mind, a mental health charity, says as many as three in ten employees suffer from anxiety and depressive disorders in any year. Radar found that almost one in five of its sample group was earning more than Ł80,000 a year, although people with mental health problems were far less likely to join that tier of top earners. 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