Depression is an extremely prevalent mental health disorder in the US, affecting about 17.3 million adults. On the surface, most of these people appear to lead regular lives, including working, hanging out with friends, or attending school. However, they’re still managing symptoms of depression on a daily basis.
What’s important to understand, though is that even when we’re seemingly leading completely normal lives, depression does affect us in indirect ways. In this blog, we’ll discuss how depression affects productivity at work.
You Always Feel Too Sleepy to Be Focused
Depression and sleep are very closely related. Very often, if you’re depressed, your sleeping patterns will change significantly; you may start sleeping a lot more during the day while becoming an insomniac at night.
When your sleep cycle gets messed up, your work does get affected. You often end up functioning on little to no sleep, which makes you tired during working hours. As a result, you’re unable to focus. Not only does this result in missed deadlines, but it also results in low-quality work.
You Keep Missing Deadlines and Have to Take Too Many Days Off
This is one of the most quantitative ways to assess how depression might be affecting your work productivity. As we mentioned earlier, depression often disturbs your sleeping pattern. Moreover, you may have intrusive and depressing thoughts throughout the day, which is also very distracting. As a result, you end up missing many deadlines repeatedly.
Simultaneously, you may often feel too depressed to get out of bed to work. The consistent absenteeism combined with missed deadlines results in incredibly low work productivity, especially when your performance is assessed over a few weeks or months, not just in one day.
You Find It Harder to Collaborate with Other Co-Workers
Have you ever encountered people at work who are just hard to get along with? Sometimes, such people are depressed and are going through a rough path outside of their work lives, which makes them difficult as people.
Of course, anybody could be in the same boat, including you. When you don’t easily get along with people at work, it affects your productivity in many ways. For starters, you’ll always feel grumpy and demotivated. Moreover, you’ll be unable to ask for help when you really need it, and this will make the work harder for you.
The point is, depression really does affect your work life in unexpected ways, and therefore it shouldn’t be ignored.
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