"Productive work forms the essential basis of a person’s mental health"

Pic from 'Building the Builders'

"You might think there’s something counterintuitive in these findings: shouldn’t patients be able to make more progress toward their mental health goals when they don’t need to worry about showing up to work each day? But what this intuition misses is that doing productive work—bringing something valuable into the world by one’s own focused efforts—forms the essential basis of a person’s mental health.
    "I’d even go so far as to say it forms the essential basis of a person."

~ Dr. Gena Gorlin, from her article 'The best way to build yourself is to build'