Over a 10-year period, mental health claims by Australian workers aged between 30 and 40 have increased by more than 730 per cent, new data has revealed.
Jamie said he is now on a disability pension after suffering a major psychological injury related to his treatment at work.The University of Sydney and the Black Dog Institute are conducting research to investigate trends in how people perceive work stressors.Jamie was once proud to introduce himself as a painter and decorator, a career he held for almost 20 years in the construction sector.
With assistance from a psychologist, he spent two years getting "work ready" and eventually took on a new job as an employee for a construction business. His life insurance policy provided a one-off payment when specialists ruled he had a permanent mental injury that would stop him from working again."I can no longer be the painter and decorator I wanted to be and the same with other personal things in life I wanted to be, I am not sure those things are achievable anymore due to my health.There has been a sharp rise in the number of younger Australians leaving the workforce permanently because of mental health related diagnoses.
CEO of CALI, Christine Cupitt, said earlier intervention was needed to make sure people's mental health was supported and they didn't fall through the cracks.CALI CEO Christine Cupitt said there had been an almost 10 per cent increase every year for a decade in the rate of people who put in a claim through their life insurance for total permanent disability payments due to mental health conditions."No one wants this to be their story and this should be alarming to all of us.
39 per cent of the increase in temporary disability payments in the past nine years were due to payments made to people with mental health conditions.However, more Australians are reporting mental health symptoms, especially younger workers who make up an ever increasing proportion of the workforce, and there's been a greater acceptance of mental health overall.
"We have found that the most recent cohort of workers, not only are more likely to have mental health problems before they enter the workforce, but the mental health of a 25-year-old now is more negatively affected by any given level of work stress then 25 years olds were a decade ago.
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