In our increasingly hectic day to day lives where we all show up to work day after day like a bad penny, invisible to everyone even ourselves; there has been an increasing demand to create mental health awareness or possibly a need to be seen to be advocating for mental health awareness in the workplace.

At most workplaces you get bulk mail asking, ‘Are you ok?’, or ‘Happy …. Day!’ or similar themed mail. But hardly do we really want to know the answer.

A lot of times people who do ask this question get this glazed-over look immediately after the question, indicating that they’ve probably switched off. And are taken aback when the response is ‘No. Actually I am NOT ok’.

A lesson that can be learnt, is that just asking ‘Are you ok?’ is not enough. Act like you would care if they were NOT ok.