Nearly 1,700 psychology faculty members and trainees completed an online survey about their experiences with mental health.

Over 80% of respondents said they had experienced difficulties with their mental health at some point, and 48% said they had been diagnosed with a mental illness.

According to findings, psychologists struggle with mental health issues just as much as their patients, so they are not immune to the conditions they treat.

A significant obstacle is an irony that mental illness stigma exists within the mental health field. We have discovered that colleagues may incorrectly perceive psychologists and trainees with mental illness as damaged, incompetent, or difficult to work with.

Sharing one’s mental health issues, disability, or illness in a training set may result in lost professional opportunities, such as being hired, promoted, or awarded, according to research.

However, research also demonstrates that revealing one’s mental illness may provide additional opportunities for employment-related support and accommodations, such as adjustments to job tasks, work schedules, and performance and time requirements.

As therapists who have worked with hundreds of clients, professionals found that their mental health struggles while they help to understand and sympathize with patients’ difficulties.

According to research, therapists can learn from their clients’ experiences and apply them to their work. In fact, “dialectical behavior therapy,” which aims to help clients live in the moment, healthily deal with stress and emotions, and improve relationships, was designed by psychologists with lived mental health experience and is widely used and supported by science.

As an exploration, researchers have found that our psychological wellness encounters illuminate our thoughts and assist us in wrestling with unavoidable difficulties.

Psychologists who have decided to talk about their mental illnesses may be able to use their positions to de-stigmatize openness about these health issues, which would benefit both the patients they care for and other mental health providers.