I'm Catherine Eadie, founder of MHScot Workplace Wellbeing, where we've trained 7,000+ people across 340+ organisations. I'm also a campaigner, mostly on disability rights and housing. This is where I write in my own voice. It can be blunt, and it often goes against the grain, because the usual story about work and mental health leaves out what's making people unwell in the first place.
Latest posts
What would help mental health at work? Ask the people thereEvery group on our mental health first aid course is asked what their employer could do. Across 26 groups, workload and flexibility keep coming up.Read more →
Blame the tenant: what 28 years of damp and mould taught meScotland's Awaab's Law now says landlords must not assume damp and mould are the tenant's fault. I lived with it for 28 years. This is what that assumption cost.Read more →
Who gets to define suffering? Even psychiatry is less sureTen labels, and only one ever talked through with me. Even one of psychiatry's defenders concedes diagnoses can't rest on objective facts. So who decides?Read more →
Searches for burnout help are down. Struggling isn't.Searches for burnout prevention and manager mental health training have halved. The stress hasn't. So what are the falling searches really telling us?Read more →
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