Why Mental Health Is an Economic Issue
Namibia loses nine out of every 10 small businesses within five years (The Brief, 2024). If one asks around, you get the usual list: not enough capital, too much red tape, not enough skills. All of that is real but it’s not the whole story, and we won’t fix the failure rate until we admit […] The post Why Mental Health Is an Economic Issue appeared first on The Namibian .
Namibia loses nine out of every 10 small businesses within five years (The Brief, 2024). If one asks around, you get the usual list: not enough capital, too much red tape, not enough skills.
All of that is real but it’s not the whole story, and we won’t fix the failure rate until we admit what’s missing from the conversation.
What we rarely examine is the organ actually making the decisions. The founder brain running for months or years under sustained financial threat is operating in conditions neuroscience has spent two decades mapping. The picture isn’t comfortable for anyone funding entrepreneurs: one cannot build a business, or a nation, on a brain that’s stuck in survival mode (Lupien et al., 2009).
THE HIDDEN COST
