SA’s toxic mental health crisis

South Africans are burdened by “a toxic mess of mental health” as they face a tsunami of crises which threatens to overwhelm them.

Employers of debt-ridden South Africans struggling with anxiety, depression and sleeping disorders are also feeling the strain with an increase in absenteeism and “presenteeism”, people who are at work but unable to focus on work.

The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag) said the psychosocial impact of financial stress had a bearing on every aspect of a person’s life.

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