Bouncing back

Ksw3

No problem. All the best for your ongoing recovery and employment future. It's a hard road but you'll get there I'm sure. 

Jillanddy

mrfoxy said:

Another post. 

This is the only job I’ve ever had since age 18. So I’m literally screwed in the future I guess. 

As my friend (who also suffers from extreme anxieties / depression) would say - that is your inner chimp yattering, and you need to stop listening to him! You are not "screwed" now, never mind the future. You are having a bad patch and may lose your job - but it's just a bad patch and this can all be turned around. ALL of it. It won't happen tomorrow. There's a journey to be made, and the first part of that is getting your meds stabilised / treatment options in place; and recognising when your inner chimp is needing to be told to shut the hell up!!! He will, if you let him, niggle around the corners of your brain, telling you rubbish and undermining your recovery. It is actually ok to not be well. What is happening to you is no different from ay other form of illness - you are not well, you need some help and support, and that will set you on a path to recovery. It may never be a "full recovery" and you may have to tussle with the chimp at times, but you can and will get better if you work at it. Physical illness is just the same - I have arthritis quite badly, and I have bad patches and better patches, but it is never going away. So I can give up and lie on the sofa and complain about the pain, or I can work to find ways to manage or relieve the pain and get on with being alive. I choose the latter. So can you. Having a mental illness does not have to incapacitate you, but it will if you let it.

StevenB12

It all depends really on a lot of things. 

A good example here actually is one of my work colleagues. He went off sick for 6/7 months I believe with mental health issues, as did another for about 4 months. Both had issues with management etc. 

By the by both are now back. Everything got documented with the companies HR dept. One has asked to come back part time while he still gets things sorted and one has come back on a 3 month probationary period. Obviously the time off was still a factor, even if it was down to mental health. 

Depending on what happens, there will always be companies looking for staff, always, regardless of personal circumstances etc. It just may be different work to what you currently do.

mrfoxy

Yeah it’s a tricky one and currently I’m still struggling. I feel like I’ve come far but not far enough and obviously time isn’t on my side here.