You can get paid sick leave for "depression" in Canada?
(You can't easily claim worker's comp for mental illness in the US without it being concomitant to a physical injury; I'm not making a statement about the seriousness of depression.)
(You can't easily claim worker's comp for mental illness in the US without it being concomitant to a physical injury; I'm not making a statement about the seriousness of depression.)
"Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes."
Canadian EI sickness benefits are paid, at least in some cases, to workers who are residents at inpatient clinics for addiction.
... but not, apparently, by Worker's Comp in Manitoba. Nor is mental illness in general, unless concomitant to a physical trauma.
Is it any wonder, that other mental conditions aren't really taken seriously? For most people 'depression' is some nebulous condition that no one takes seriously until the depressed person has a failed attempt at suicide then everyone says that the "didn't see it coming."