Posted by Camille Dumont on December 31, 2003, at 11:20:31
In reply to I'm on my soapbox again, posted by socialdeviantjeff on December 29, 2003, at 3:16:11
Congratulation! I can relate on the problem with work. Every time some little crap happens at work, I have this almost uncontrollable urge to just quit ... right then and now.
I'm sort of lucky for not being physically sick much (like colds and such) so I can keep my sick days for when I feel to crappy to come to work ... and I have to ask doctors to write some mumbo-jumbo on my little slips so they won't know what I really have.
I've seen what happens when people know you have a mental illness in the workplace. If your depressed ... its you who's just whiny and unmotivated ... and if its something else ... then you're "crazy" and they're afraid of you ... thinking your always about to "snap" and go on a rampage.
Its also a pain not to be able to tell people about it. I may be in the public service, I KNOW I`ll be discriminated against if I ever tell. Instead people just wonder why I'm so evasive when the side effects become funky. Had my boss ask me if I had cardiac problems ... and with the "petit mal" episodes from meds, he thought I had epilepsy or something similar.
Hang in there with that job ... a understanding superior is something to be cherished.
poster:Camille Dumont
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