--- title: (comic) Concerned about mental health | daily.dev description: A workplace comic touching on mental health concerns in a professional setting, part of an ongoing comic series about work life. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-concerned-about-mental-health-z32cbjso3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (comic) Concerned about mental health | daily.dev og:description: A workplace comic touching on mental health concerns in a professional setting, part of an ongoing comic series about work life. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-concerned-about-mental-health-z32cbjso3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z32CbJSO3.png og:image:alt: (comic) Concerned about mental health og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (comic) Concerned about mental health **[Work Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles)** · 1 min read · 42 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary A workplace comic touching on mental health concerns in a professional setting, part of an ongoing comic series about work life. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sarcasmorex** · 3 upvotes > Sounds like the Amazon model to me. **@aruiz** · 2 upvotes > What is PIP? **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > Apparently PIP doubles as the company's mental health resource **@elmarchavez** · 1 upvotes > It turns out asking for help in a workplace gives you more mental health problems. **@jliter85** · 1 upvotes > This one made me laugh because it’s way too believable. Companies can offer all the wellness programs they want, but sometimes the best mental health initiative would be fixing the things at work that are stressing everyone out in the first place. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [\(comic\) Deep work](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-deep-work-s0vqci0lx) · Work Chronicles · 40 upvotes · 3 comments - [\(comic\) Range of emotions](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-range-of-emotions-0lnldvaow) · Work Chronicles · 28 upvotes · 3 comments - [\(comic\) Unprofessional behavior](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-unprofessional-behavior-dtar3ibo8) · Work Chronicles · 23 upvotes · 0 comments - [\(comic\) Therapist anecdote](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-therapist-anecdote-hqusvjjtd) · Work Chronicles · 31 upvotes · 4 comments - [\(comic\) Compensation](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-compensation-urxqnacy7) · Work Chronicles · 17 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on 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