Going off Work Sick

I feel really bad for taking time off as I feel like I am letting people down, but when I am in I am struggling quite badly at the moment.

Money is also an issue, but I am afraid I may have to take the rest of the week off at least.

I don’t know what to do

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If you can’t work, you can’t work. Don’t beat yourself up. Do you have State Disability where you live?

Or do you have Afflac?

I get a disability payment each month, but my finances even with it are too tight. There is not much room to take time off sick.

I am just not sure if being at home is going to help either as I might just make myself worse.

I don’t know what Afflac is

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Well what are the symptoms that are keeping you home?

I have bad stress anxiety and paranoia plus sleep problems

To be honest I don’t feel as equipped as I used to be to put up with it.

This morning I couldn’t focus on my work and my vision was going bad and I felt really sick

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I’m so sorry. I hope tomorrow you feel better. What is your job?

Tell them you got tested and are positive for influenza B and will need four or five days to not be contagious anymore. If they want proof, get proof from you pdoc that things went south. You were trying to save face and not embarrass yourself with the truth that your mental health was unwell.

I double dog dare they fire you for your disability. It’s called the Americans with Disabilities Act. And HIPPA Federal law. (I guess I’m assuming you are an American Citizen).

You need your time to heal and recover. These symptoms are no joke and I dont know how you folks can work on top of these symptoms…

I am a data analyst for a marketing company.

If I cannot concentrate on my work I get very stressed about it and can become very agitated.

I am not sure if I can function with this much longer if my psychologist can’t work a miracle.

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Oh no! That’s sad news. I remember the last day I worked. Something in me just broke and I knew it was my last shift. It’s taken me a long time to recover. I’m trying to go back to work now, I hope I’m ready. Can you get by just on your disability pay somehow?

Sorry you have been through that. I wish you luck with finding a new job.

I cannot go on disability. I doubled down on working without realising how boxed in it would make me. I would have to commit financial suicide to get disability to help me

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Crap. What are you going to do?

I cannot make decisions when I am not thinking straight as people always tell me.

I will have to wait it out and see.

If I gave up now it would end years worth of effort in gaining independence

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I think you have an important point. If you search on youtube for “Schizophrenia and smoking” the first video that comes up, takes a position that the biggest cause of (smoking) is boredom. That felt new to me. But I don’t recall where you’re at, on that topic. Nonetheless Idle hands are the devil’s play thing.

I think I smoke because I am bored.

I literally don’t know what to do with myself.

The psychologist has tried to get me to do other things but I am failing miserably.

All I do at home is either lay in bed with the tv on or smoke in my kitchen

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Well rest today and then hopefully that will help you get some clarity for tomorrow. I’m so sorry you aren’t feeling well. I wish I could help more.

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Thanks @Leaf You have helped by talking to me as I really don’t know what to do

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You’re welcome. You’re in a hard position. What you need is good luck right now.

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My writing improved with schizophrenia… but I can’t suggest that as a substitute for smoking. I forget if David Duchovny smoked in the show Californication (but he probably did).

And in the lesser known work “1408” starring John Cusack he wore a cigarrette(why can’t I spell this word) around his neck, in case of the end of the world.

I look to fiction here because I think it’s actually more universal somehow