Posted by Alara on February 1, 2003, at 23:38:27
In reply to Re: Can you really be fired for mental illness? Vent! » Alara, posted by mair on January 31, 2003, at 6:56:09
Thanks Coral, Noa and Mair,
Coral, I am in Australia but I doubt that there is much difference concerning this aspect of leglislation between the US and Aust..
I have now spent most of the weekend unwinding at home and realise that I may have been over- reacting a little to the situation. As you said, Mair: We tend to see everything as being a lot worse than it really is when we are feeling anxious and depressed.
Yes, I have actually had over 4 years of therapy and understand myself very well. I am now (hopefully) at that stage of my life when I can just return to books like "Learned Optimism" and "Feeling Good" to give myself a little bit of a self CBT boost. Mind you, my stomach is stil in a terrible knot!
I talked to one of the other girls on Friday night, who can't get through her own workload in spite of working from 7am-7pm every day. Her supervisor costantly tells her to pull her boots up because she is still in her 3 month probation period. She sounds as though she is about to crack. People have been off sick (possibly stress related) and last week i have been trying to do all of one of my coleague's work in addition to my own. I just have to accept that I do not have a particularly high tolerance to stress, that I am still doing a perfectly good job considering what is humanly possible, and to continue hoping that we will get 5 new employees soon.
What really upsets me more than the stress itself is the feeling of isolation in the midst of all this stress. People are biting each other's heads off...One group of individuals divides itself against another - while I sit always on the outside looking in. I am finding it impossible to make friends...Togetherness in adversity makes even the most stressful of situations a lot easier...But I feel like the lone wolf in the midst of two rival gangs. (wink.) Nobody tells me what's going on because I've made it obvious that I don't bitch. It makes life so lonely.
Thanks for listening. I am one of those people who has an abnormally high need for catharsis and emotional support when I am going through a bad time.
I got back with my exboyfriend recently and spent the whole of Friday night crying in his arms. Poor guy. I think he was expecting more of a happy, uh, romantic get-together.
Life is not always a bed of roses. Why can't I just accept that?
Alara
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