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Managing the challenges of empathy when you're depressed

Managing the challenges of empathy when you're depressed

From the course: Managing Depression in the Workplace

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Managing the challenges of empathy when you're depressed

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- Even if you're a caring person, depression will make it more difficult to care about others. So you'll find it extra hard to inspire a team, cooperate with others, or coordinate plans. For instance, I once worked with a manager named Michael who led a large team on technology innovation. His role was to facilitate conversations between programmers and designers to create superior products. After he was diagnosed with depression he noticed that his influence had begun to diminish. The programmers thought that he didn't understand them. And the designers thought that he must have been favoring the programmers. Nobody felt understood. People felt miserable and projects took much longer to complete. Michael wondered why does nobody think I get it? In this video we'll talk about how depression affects your empathy. And we'll also look at what you can do when depression disrupts it. First, let's take a look at how depression impacts your empathy. When you are depressed you become…

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