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How I’m Using the Company EAP Program to Help Me Show Up To Work & Function
Life must be pretty pathetic if you have to rely on the company joke to get by. I mean what kind of person has to rely on what everyone else is ignoring to show up to work and try to function like a normal human being. Though I just learned in one of my stay calm and stop freaking out videos that we should appreciate our lunacy. There is no such thing as a normal human being. Understanding that makes a huge difference. I am not trying to be normal, though I am, I am trying to maintain my brand of crazy. I’m not doing so good. I am so sick of not doing so good. So sick in fact that I decided it is a no holds barred. It’s time to get better so let’s try it all. The result can’t be worse than doing nothing at all.
The University of Maryland changed its specialization name in 1990 to EAP to reflect the emergence of Employee Assistance Programs from Occupational Social Work and Occupational Alcoholism. As early as the 1940’s employers began dealing with alcoholism and by the 1970’s they started focusing on mental health and family problems. EAP, in case no one explained it to you, they didn’t me, is an employer-paid program that provides counseling, life coaching, legal, health, and resources to employees. It can be seen as a prevention approach when used by supervisors as a way to mitigate employee problems.
