Why is this important?

Depression is a treatable disease! However, a person suffering from depression needs help to be able to get back to the effective functioning in the society. The disease causes high personal costs:

• Fear of revealing the disease - often results in a presenting phenomenon.
• Constant decrease in performance - leading to the additional stress and further deterioration of health.
• The growing frustration and deterioration of communication - increasing absenteeism.
• Isolating from the community - deterioration of communication, absence.
• Deepening feeling of rejection and low self-esteem - decreased efficiency, absence.
• Patient's condition also affects the organization that incurs so-called indirect costs of the disease:
• The phenomenon of presenting that has an impact on efficiency.
• Increasing absenteeism, which result in problems with meeting deadlines.
• Staff fluctuation, which increases training costs and extends the time of completing tasks.
• Lower team motivation that results in a decreased efficiency and commitment.
• Costs associated with replacing the diseased employee.
• Internal conflicts related to the lack of understanding of employees that intensify conflicts within the organization and reduce efficiency.