Mental health experts in the Veterans Bureau say that stress caused by the Trump administration’s actions is negative on patient treatment.
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Elon Musk said, “What did you do last week?” Email in the federal labor force “Pulse Pulse Check” review.
“Are there pulses and two neurons?” He laughed at the White House Cabinet meeting last week.
Some mental health experts in the Veterans Bureau are not interesting. They compare email campaigns to psychological wars: Blitz attacks.
“I feel that many of us are being harassed to justify our existence and values.” A clinical psychologist who mentioned what VA has been doing for a long time, the number of people she sees, the number of phone calls, the time of the beginning and end of the promise, and what kind of handwriting or homework.
As the weekend approaches, many federal workers said, “What did you do last week?” The email comes to the soon received letter and reminds you of five bullet points achieved on Monday.
The White House did not immediately respond to the request for the federal employee’s response to the email.
Mental health experts who talked to the NPR about stress asked to remain anonymously because of the fear of the government’s retaliation.
I have no choice but to answer
The demand for weekly performance accounting from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) email address during the working hours has led to federal workers throughout the government. Nevertheless, the VA instructed the staff to respond, so mental health workers who talked to the NPR could not ignore the request.
In social media, MUSK suggested that employees could lose their jobs if they did not respond. President Trump said that people who did not respond at the cabinet meeting said, “I am in a bubble as I said.”
Trump and Musk suggested that there may be people who collect government salaries that do not cite evidence and even move to another job or even die.
Musk said, “We literally these people are real, alive and email.”
However, in addition to all other chaos that hits federal labor, including the future mass dismissal notifications, the stress raised by email was damaged, psychologists said.
“I have to stay together and deploy OPM emails, and I have to answer the concerns of Veterans’ soldiers about whether I will be for them next week or the moon,” she said. “Instead of doing good things to solve depression, PTSD, sexual trauma, battle trauma, etc., you need to spend time to calm your nerves.”
Eyes of work because of fear of monitoring
The psychiatrist of other Veterans Health Facilities is said to be in Costco’s parking lot. Email sent to Saturday when she tried to relax with her family after work.
“As a person who specializes in mental health, I can be convinced that this weekend email is to psychologically upset federal workers. “She told NPR.
And it works.
“I’m anxious and sensitive at home,” she said. “I am being ruined for the first time, which has a negative impact on my mental health and told Veterans not to do it.”
The psychiatrist also describes the paranoia that started at work. She said in the online messages and meetings because of the fear of being monitored by the MUSK and his government efficiency department.
She assumes that there are all the answers to “What did you do last week?” I use artificial intelligence to analyze emails, but I don’t know any end.
“I really believe this is a evil process,” she said.
Amy Edmondson, a professor of Harvard Business School and a social psychologist, understands where the doubt came from.
In general, employers do not contact workers unless they are actual emergencies. In the context of the Trump administration to reduce federal labor, a simple request to list five achievements from the whole week is worrying at best and the worst case.
Edmondson said, “You don’t know what is under it. “Do you really want the sender? Who is it for?
Mandatory call
This week, the Veterans’ Ministry has laid the initial foundation for mass layoffs as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce more than 80,000 positions in the entire department, increasing the efficiency of human resources, reducing the efficiency of human resources, reducing footsteps, and reducing the efficiency of human resources. VA memo shared by the US Civil Service Federation.
Mental health experts who talk with NPR do not know whether they are affected. They thought about jobs outside the government, but they like their work and do not want to leave the Veterans who helped them.
Psychologists said, “In the private sector, you can work with ‘easier’ or less complex patients.” The psychologist said, “The reality is that people who choose to work for VA are due to the duty to serve those who serve us.”
Do you want to share the federal government’s continuous change? NPR’s Andrea HSU can be contacted by encrypted communication with the signal of Andreahsu.08.
