The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health

One thing I keep forgetting and relearning is how important it is to us that people appreciate our work. The following thing has happened to me multiple times: my partner, my friends, associates, and people I've just observed over the years.We have violent swings of emotions between being in a titanic pose on the front of a ship and feeling like life doesn't matter over the course of one to two days or weeks.And if you look at what changed, it is the perception of your boss and management and your peers of the work that you are doing.So if you come up with a new idea or initiate a new project, all of management and your peers are like, Oh my God, this is amazing. I can't believe this. We're gonna retask. We're gonna head in this direction. This is tremendously valuable to the company, etc. You feel like this is the best job you've ever had, and you're the happiest you've ever been.And conversely, the opposite feeling, is something like you propose things and nobody listens or even…