Benefits leaders are the unsung heroes of corporate America — ensuring that thousands of members can access their benefits quickly and seamlessly. Unfortunately, the pandemic has only made their jobs more challenging. As the mental health crisis continues to worsen and new services hit the market at staggering rates, the task of evaluating mental health...
This is the third in a three-part series focused on mental health literacy: what it is, why employees need it, and how to achieve it. Read parts one and two now! Hopefully, you’ve read the first and second posts in this three-part series on the importance of mental health literacy. If so, you already have...
In 1992, the alternative rock band R.E.M. wrote the song “Everybody Hurts” and it became an instant classic (here, have a listen). Not only is the tune catchy but the lyrics are rather accurate. Decades of psychological research confirm it: Mental health problems are universal and “everybody [does indeed] hurt sometimes.” Across the globe, between...
This is the second in a three-part series focused on mental health literacy: what it is, why employees need it, and how to achieve it. Read part one now. In part one, Big Health’s Clinical Lead for Sleep Dr. Jennifer Kanady and Clinical Lead for Anxiety Dr. Michelle Davis explained how to recognize the signs...
This is the first in a three-part series focused on mental health literacy: what it is, why employees need it, and how to achieve it. The last year has brought up a lot of feelings. Some — like sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion — are easy to identify. Other feelings are harder to name, making them...
The biggest challenge of investing – whether it’s index funds, real estate, or baseball cards – is knowing whether what you buy will increase in value in the long run. After all, you need a genie or a time machine to predict the future. Last we checked, neither of those (sadly) are real. Companies face...
Saving money is great — right up until “saving” becomes more costly than investing. You can “save” money by delaying the purchase of a new air conditioner, but a sky-high electric bill will dig an even bigger financial hole over time. Or, you can “save” money by not replacing old tires, but a blowout is...
Inside any therapist’s office you’ll find a massive manual — either the ICD-11 or the American DSM-5 — that lists each and every mental health condition. For decades, psychologists have separated mental health problems into dozens of distinct categories, each with their own symptoms and subtypes. But head to the office building next door and you...
Think back to a night when you were unable to fall or stay asleep. Perhaps you tossed and turned only to notice the early morning hours pass on the clock — 1:21, 2:42, 3:56. Your mind raced. And with every waking minute you grew more and more frustrated by your inability to drift off. This...
The average length of time employees are logged into their computer has increased by two hours per day since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, 61% of remote workers are finding it more difficult to “unplug” from their work, and 39% report regularly checking their emails during non-work hours (…guilty). At Big Health, we’re...
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