Unum Behavioral Health
Employee mental health is at an all-time low. Experts say the combination of health concerns and work pressures in the pandemic era caused widespread mental health problems that will reverberate far into the future.
In the past two years, the number of Unum’s Short Term Disability claims paid due to behavioral health reasons increased at more than twice the rate of the overall number Short Term Disability claims paid.
Nearly 20% of U.S. adults experience anxiety disorder.
Source: NAMI, You Are Not Alone, 2019.8% experience clinical depression.
Source: NAMI, You Are Not Alone, 2019.Depression costs employers an estimated $44 billion in lost productivity.
Source: W.F. Stewart et al., Cost of Lost Productive Work Time Among US Workers With Depression, JAMA, 2003. The most recent source of its kind.
It’s time to normalize discussions about mental health. When these issues are stigmatized, people shy away from getting support when they need it.
Everyone has stress in their life, and everyone reacts to it differently at different times, under different circumstances. Implementing a broad-based early intervention program that serves everyone helps employees resolve stress and other challenges before they turn into a more serious mental health disorder.
With communication and education, we encourage employees to evaluate their own place on the mental health continuum and to reach out for services to protect or restore their mental health.
We then design an individualized program, with services ranging from educational resources for dealing with minor stress, all the way to interventional therapy for those challenged with mental illness.
1. Refers to the number of unique claims that received at least one payment in the year with a primary ICD10 code of a behavioral health disorder, including substance use disorders. Unum internal data, 2021.
2. STD = Short Term Disability
