Name: Madhu Latha Veerapaneni, Potluri Pravishta Sri Ratna, Garikapati Abhiramu, Payala Dhanush & Chatla Suhan Raj
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-12, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 127-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17366735

ABSTRACT
While high-stake entrepreneurship is widely praised for innovatively generating growth and
economic growth, it can also lead to many mental health problems for entrepreneurs. This
study documents the prevalence, causes, consequences, and effects of mental health issues
such as anxiety, depression, and burnout among high-stake entrepreneurs. Experiences arising
from high strain environments where entrepreneurs are active are connected to significantly
greater levels of mental health morbidity among entrepreneurs than the general population,
based on prolonged stress, financial insecurity, social isolation, fear of failure, and an unclear
work-life ratio. This is a perverse and paradoxical trend: that even the defining characteristics
that give a person an opportunity to have an entrepreneurial journey can also carry a price in
health which in many ways cost you a long-term mental drag down by long lasting mental
health impacts and long-term mental wear and tear that will require decisions; bad luck, bad
relationships, bad business relationships and bad results. This study emphasizes systemic
interventions, the presence of support structures, and a fundamental transformation in the
entrepreneurial culture that can allow for openness in discussing the effects on mental health,
particularly on an individual and on the business level of any entrepreneurial work culture so
as to enable an open discussion on mental health risk and the ability to eliminate it.
KEY WORDS
High-Stake Entrepreneurship, unduly high rates of entrepreneurship, Bad decisions,
Systematic interventions, Entrepreneurial success.