Asking for Help | Simon Sinek

Why don't hospitals have mental health professionals that are there for the doctors and nurses? That's their sole job. I have a few friends who are emergency room nurses, A&E nurses, and they have told me that if you work in an ER, there's a very high rate of alcoholism. You never ever ask for help. You never admit weakness because it's just culturally not acceptable. And they said that when we went into lockdown during COVID the drinking just went up. That's all that happened is the way they cope with stress is unhealthily. So I think one of the things we have to start doing, and I'll do my part if you do your part, is we have to talk about it. We have to make that which is implicit explicit. We have to have doctors and nurses to have the courage to say, I'm struggling. I don't have the strength for this pace, and I know nobody else does. Because all it takes is one person to say it, but nobody will unless somebody goes first.