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Prince William said: “I took a lot home without realising it. If you see sad things every day, you think all life is like that. You’re just seeing all the sad things, all the pain every day.
“I think that for the medical community, particularly, must weigh a lot on their minds: that you’re always dealing with despair, sadness, injury, things that are really quite troubling.”
He added: “The attrition builds up and you don’t really have the opportunity to offload it.”
At the launch of the Mental Health At Work initiative, he said: “If we are going to improve the mental health of our nation, we need to improve things at work.
“People spend more time there than almost anywhere else, yet research shows that it’s also the place where we’re least comfortable talking about mental health.”
He insisted employers could do better, adding: “If you are a business owner, a team leader, a line manager, you work in HR, or just believe in supporting the well-being of your colleagues – Mental Health At Work can help.”
William, 36, wants a “big shift in working culture” to ensure dealing with mental health is a part of the everyday working life.
The father-of-three visited the Engine Shed, a community work-hub in Bristol, to launch the project.
The initiative has been created by the younger royals’ mental health campaign Heads Together and Mind, the charity which has released the findings of a study into workplace well-being.
It found 48 per cent of Britons had experienced poor mental health in their job but only half of those had talked to their employer about it.
One in four workers is struggling in silence with problems such as anxiety, low mood and stress.
Last year a report that followed an independent review commissioned by Theresa May revealed 333,000 people lose their job every year due to a mental health problems, costing the economy between £72billion and £99billion.
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