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Yeah, I don't want another disassociative episode, not going back there any time soon.
This is so true and so right. In my experience of the public sector, they rarely get the right people in as managers because they promote people who are good at the day job and are not necessarily good managers. There is also the complete lack of understanding that giving somebody suffering from anxiety and/or depression a warning about their sick absences is actually going to make things worse not better. It's like pouring petrol on a fire. Now, the person with anxiety will be worrying about what will happen if they go off sick again- which makes their anxiety worse and invariably leads to more time off.Interesting articles making the rounds about the rise of stress related absenteeism from work and the problem of so called presenteeism and leavism (where workers repeatedly take annual leave days to cover for not feeling mentally well enough to attend work). Apparently a great number of the line managers polled said they felt inadequately trained to spot and tackle mental health problems at work.
I bet most of the employers these managers work for are in the public sector. My suspicion is that the root problem is people are promoted to managerial level when clearly they don’t have the necessary basic attributes such as good people skills! See it all the time. This will continue to be the practice because the public sector doesn’t pay the money required to attract good managers so has to continually promotes from within, often putting ill equipped and ill suited people in supervisory roles. It actually doesn’t make good economical sense this. Imagine how much of the estimated billion pounds lost to stress related absence could be reduced by paying a decent rate for managerial positions thereby attracting decent managers?
From my experience of working with lots of HR departments and monitoring sickness trends and causes, a good manager makes a massive difference between a mental health employee coping or not coping at work. Training is only one aspect in making a good manager but you’ve got to have at least a basic level of people skill and capacity for empathy that a lot of well-heeled public sector managers in particular just don’t have! Good managers who support and promote good mental health in the workplace is the start needed to change the very culture of looking after mental health in the workplace and remove this entrenched societal stigma about mental health illness.
Rant over
Back in my late thirties I went through a similar phase,in the end I just surrendered myself to the fact that this was just me.Once I'd got my head around the fact that sometimes I'd just need to sit a few days out,it slowly started to get better and the times it happened became fewer.Not for everybody obviously but the struggle with your emotional state can the problem,once you give in and accept,things can get better.
But it's a good idea if you do,taking anti-depressants along with a know depressant is always going to slow down your recovery.
As far as I understand, anti-depressant doses should just make you feel nit depresses, I don't think you should go down the road of wanting them to make you feel happy all the time - that just isn't a natural part if life. If they did then the happiness would just plateau into feeling normal and you'd be left wanting yet more dose again.
Cheers mate. That makes sense .
Think that's what I was trying to say.