Fear of returning to work

Hi @FracturedBeing 

Work can be a scary place, there are lots of people and lots of things to stress about. If you start to go more and more you may find that you get used to it again.

You can always call help lines, you shouldn't feel like you dont deserve to, you do, its why those services were set up 🙂

I hope you start to feel better soon! 

Hey @FracturedBeing,

You did all the right things informing your employer of your diagnosis and also giving yourself the time and space to regulate 🏵 

Working in a space that have policies for mental health circumstances is always a great start! But it sounds like they're still not meeting the mark in terms of how to realistically support someone with a mental health diagnosis in the workplace 😕 Regardless of their intent, it never feels nice to be the "testing" dummy.

I wonder if you have been able to communicate these feelings with them? With us being dependent on our jobs, it's never easy to advocate for our needs in the work place, which is super fair. But you also deserve to work in a space where you're heard and accommodated for, happy employees = better production! 

As for feeling bad about using the hotlines, like what @Anonymouse1000 said, it's why those services exist! Struggling isn't the olympics, you're very much allowed to struggle, even if there might be others who have more "serious" difficulties. 

We all deserve help, no matter the magnitude of our pain compared to others. Cause pain is pain, and no one should have to put up with it, if they can help it.

Hope today is a better day for you 🙏

Hi @FracturedBeing ,

Just wondering how your first day back was?

It's emotionally demanding returning to work after a breakdown.

Does it look like they will be following the recommendations?

It was a very exhausting day. But everyone seemed to leave me be. Just kind of avoiding the elephant in the room. On Wednesday I was then called into a meeting where I was told that I had to get my doctor to fill in paperwork so that I was allowed to stay at work.

Frustrating because I had asked if they needed this information before I was to start back, but no one said I needed anything. Was also expected to get it done that week. Like seriously, who.can see their regular doc in 2 days 🤯

Amazingly I managed to secured a doc app for Monday,  and they were willing to make that exception. But it's just the same paperwork that they were presented with early last year, nothing has changed. Guess they need to revise how seriously they are going to take things in the future.