Expanded efforts are underway from Michigan State University Extension to provide resources to farmers and ag professionals to better cope with chronic stress and mental health challenges.
Behavioral health educator Eric Karbowski manages MSUE’s new Farm Stress program and tells Brownfield it can be difficult for farmers to separate their work and personal lives.
“They don’t get to go home from work necessarily. Oftentimes they live on the farm and work on the farm.”
He says simple steps to help establish a better work/life
balance include changing clothes at home to “take off the workday” and making
time to prioritize stress factors.
