“Your body needs a rest, your brain needs a break.”How do you know if you need a ‘ sad day ’?There’s no official definition for a “sad day,” also known as a mental health day. Not everybody values mental health, he added, and “unless you’re close with your supervisor, it is a risk.”But say you work at the type of organization where you can tell the truth without fear of being punished. In that case, you are still under no obligation to reveal why you want to take a sick day. That way, you can try to change the system for everyone, including yourself.In deciding how to use a mental health day, it helps to think about what brought you to this point in the first place. But today is a day that I need to take care of myself, so that’s what I’m going to do.”

Source: Economic Times August 17, 2021 09:56 UTC