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I am a young(ish) lawyer relatively new to the professional world, and struggling for most of my life with mental health issues which I would never dream of telling my employer. I am not "ashamed" due to "stigma": I just know I would be forever after viewed as not up to the job. As for employers, I honestly doubt the effectiveness of initiatives such as to appointing a "mental health tsar", expressing a commitment to mental health or any other such tokenistic gestures. What would help are concrete steps, fully in the employer's control, such as:

- removing the relentless focus on billing targets;
- removing the pressure to work late. If you could stop tutting or commenting when we leave the office or book time off then that would be great;
- encouraging people to take their annual leave;
- better pay for the work we do;
- not making us feel intimidated or stupid when we ask for help.

That would go so much further to improving employees' mental health than merely stating a commitment to mental health concerns while doing nothing to combat them.