Blue-Collar Mental Health Toolkit

"Just talk to a therapist" is great advice if you have insurance that covers it, a schedule that allows it, and a workplace culture that doesn't treat it as weakness. Most people in trades, service, and physical jobs have none of those three things. Construction has the second-highest suicide rate of any industry. Food service workers have depression rates double the national average. This skill doesn't pretend those barriers don't exist. It starts where you actually are — on the job, on the clock, dealing with it — and works from there.

This skill references and extends: burnout-recovery, anxiety-emergency, someone-is-struggling.