[net-gold] Jan Wong Workplace Depression, Video Tapes A Secret Psychiatrist and a New Book Called Out of the Blue
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- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 01:23:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 01:03:39 -0400
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Jan Wong Workplace Depression,
Video Tapes A Secret Psychiatrist and a New Book Called Out of the Blue
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Jan Wong
Workplace Depression, Video Tapes
A Secret Psychiatrist and a New Book
Called Out of the Blue
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The Globe and Mail fires a journalist
suffering from depression after
Manulife Insurance secretly videotapes
her and has a secret psychiatrist
declare her not ill.
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Jan Wong: Workplace Depression
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A much-honoured reporter with
The Globe and Mail for more than 20 years,
Jan Wong incurred the anger of management,
suffered a breakdown and the agony of
clinical depression and eventually was
fired.
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In the midst of her depression, she
couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, could
barely converse with friends. She
eventually pulled out of it, and has
written about her experience in a new
book called Out of the Blue.
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Jan Wong talks with Michael about
a little-acknowledged condition:
workplace depression.
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http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/
features/2012/05/06/
jan-wong-workplace-depression/
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Was Canada's "Globe and Mail"
"MIA" with Jan Wong?
"...Jan Wong is an award winning
newspaper reporter and author, who
was, at one time, the Beijing bureau
chief for the Globe and Mail and one of
the most prominent feature writers
Canada has ever produced. ... Jan went
through a complete nervous breakdown.
The Human Resources department at
the newspaper cut off her benefits and
sick leave after six weeks. (Her
union contract stipulates that workers
are eligible for six months sick
leave). Jan was ordered back to work
but felt it was too soon as she was
unable to write and had a medical
certificate so stating. When she failed
to show up in the newsroom as required,
she was fired in 2006...The Globe
has been a great employer when it comes
to handling reporters in war zones
and other stressful situations.
Jan Wong clearly underwent a clinical
depression caused by job-related
post-traumatic stress disorder. If she
has been in Iraq or Syria or Sierra
Leone, the Globe would have had no
hesitation about giving her or any war
correspondent the necessary support
and care. .... It's not too late for
the Globe to acknowledge the nature
of workplace depression wherever it
occurs. A good starting point would be
to ask Ed Greenspon to review Jan's book. ..."
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http://www.nowthedetails.blogspot.ca/2012/05/
was-globe-and-mail-mia-with-jan-wong.html
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"....This is the kind of country we
live in. The Globe and Mail fires a
journalist suffering from depression
after Manulife Insurance secretly
videotapes her and has a secret
psychiatrist declare her not ill.
Thankfully in finally settling with
Manulife (after the lawsuit needless
to say) she arranged to have excerpts
from the surveillance videos posted
to You tube - though only for six months..."
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http://youtu.be/zxNQq366gfU
Published on May 5, 2012 by writerwong
http://www.youtube.com/user/writerwong
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These are excerpts from secret videos
commissioned by Manulife Financial
that resulted in the Globe and Mail
firing me in the middle of a major
clinical depression. For more than 20
years, I worked as a staff reporter
at the Globe. When I suddenly fell ill
with clinical depression, the Globe
didn't believe me. Manulife, the insurer,
hired Garda, an international
security company, to surreptitiously
follow and videotape me. Manulife
showed the tapes to its consulting
psychiatrist, who ruled I wasn't
depressed. Read more in my new memoir,
Out of the Blue.
http://www.janwong.ca
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