My gut reaction is to think we should just make use of existing mental health resources out there which are abundant. I’m not sure why it would help for it to be EA specific.
It would certainly be useful for someone to make a summary of available resources and/or to do a meta-review of what works for mental health, but I can’t see that this would require a whole organisation to be set up. CEA could hire one person to work on this for example and that would seem to me to be sufficient.
I can’t see that this would require a whole organisation to be set up. CEA could hire one person to work on this for example and that would seem to me to be sufficient.
This org would be setup to provision actual mental health services or programs at free or low cost for EAs.
To be really concrete, maybe imagine a pilot with 1-2 EA founders and maybe 2-4.0 FTE practitioners or equivalent partnerships.
It would certainly be useful for someone to make a summary of available resources and/or to do a meta-review of what works for mental health,
There are perspectives where the value of reviews and compendium websites have limited value and my first impression is that it may apply here.
My gut reaction is to think we should just make use of existing mental health resources out there which are abundant. I’m not sure why it would help for it to be EA specific.
This is a very strong statement. I have trouble relating to this belief.
Your profile says you work in management consulting or economics. You also seem to live in the UK. You seem have and directly use high human capital in management or highly technical fields. In totality, you probably enjoy substantial mental health services and while such jobs can be stressful, it’s usually the case they do not involve direct emotional trauma.
Not all EAs enjoy the same experiences. For example:
In global health or in animal welfare, people who love animals have to pour over graphic footage of factory farming, or physically enter factory farms risking specific legal retaliation from industry, to create movies like this. I assure you funding for such work is low and there may be no mental health support.
Similar issues exist in global health and poverty, where senior leaders often take large pay cuts and reduction of benefits.
I know an EA-like person who had to work for free during 2020 for 3-4 months in a CEO role, where they worked 20 hour days. They regularly faced pleas for medical supplies from collapsing institutions, as well as personal attacks and fires inside and outside the org, for not doing enough.
Many of these roles are low status or have zero pay or benefits.
Many of the people who do this work above have very high human capital and would enjoy high pay and status, but actively choose to do work because no one else will or will even understand it.
My gut reaction is to think we should just make use of existing mental health resources out there which are abundant. I’m not sure why it would help for it to be EA specific.
It would certainly be useful for someone to make a summary of available resources and/or to do a meta-review of what works for mental health, but I can’t see that this would require a whole organisation to be set up. CEA could hire one person to work on this for example and that would seem to me to be sufficient.
This org would be setup to provision actual mental health services or programs at free or low cost for EAs.
To be really concrete, maybe imagine a pilot with 1-2 EA founders and maybe 2-4.0 FTE practitioners or equivalent partnerships.
There are perspectives where the value of reviews and compendium websites have limited value and my first impression is that it may apply here.
This is a very strong statement. I have trouble relating to this belief.
Your profile says you work in management consulting or economics. You also seem to live in the UK. You seem have and directly use high human capital in management or highly technical fields. In totality, you probably enjoy substantial mental health services and while such jobs can be stressful, it’s usually the case they do not involve direct emotional trauma.
Not all EAs enjoy the same experiences. For example:
In global health or in animal welfare, people who love animals have to pour over graphic footage of factory farming, or physically enter factory farms risking specific legal retaliation from industry, to create movies like this. I assure you funding for such work is low and there may be no mental health support.
Similar issues exist in global health and poverty, where senior leaders often take large pay cuts and reduction of benefits.
I know an EA-like person who had to work for free during 2020 for 3-4 months in a CEO role, where they worked 20 hour days. They regularly faced pleas for medical supplies from collapsing institutions, as well as personal attacks and fires inside and outside the org, for not doing enough.
Many of these roles are low status or have zero pay or benefits.
Many of the people who do this work above have very high human capital and would enjoy high pay and status, but actively choose to do work because no one else will or will even understand it.