Managing severe mental health decline due to toxic job
💚 healthsocial problemSingle report ●●●●●
A product manager in Sweden reports that their current job, which involves managing a legacy system with an under-skilled development team, is causing severe anxiety and mental health decline, making it difficult to maintain well-being while searching for a new role in a competitive job market.
What people do today
- Antidepressant medication
- Professional therapy
- Taking work day-by-day
🔧 Fix this
Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:
- A peer-support platform specifically for tech workers experiencing burnout to share coping strategies and exit-planning resources.
- A structured 'mental health exit plan' template that helps employees quantify their financial runway and set strict emotional boundaries to survive until resignation.
- A specialized career coaching service focused on rapid job transitions for professionals currently suffering from workplace-induced mental health crises.
Real voices
“my job is slowly making me sick. I have started to have really concerning mental health symptoms, specifically severe anxiety”
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