When Bringing Your ‘Whole Self’ to Work Is Too Much

Talking about emotional health with co-workers can break down taboos—but can also reveal too much information

Photo illustration by Nick Marabella for The Wall Street Journal, iStock (3)

Ask a co-worker that most mundane of questions—How’s it going?—and brace yourself. You might get a real answer. 

The pandemic made many of us more comfortable talking about our mental health at work, surveys show. Feeling less pressure to act like we’ve got it all together, some people now swap struggles with burnout and impostor syndrome almost as freely as they talk about sore joints after a weekend 5k. 

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