Over the past 8 years, I’ve had periods of anxiety and depression. These are managed by short periods of Prozac/fluoxetine (historically I’ve been able to come off it after 6 months to a year). I haven’t taken it for three years now as I’ve been able to manage it, but my workload has become so extreme lately that it’s tipped me over the edge. I’ve decided that it’s time to go back to the doctors to ask for a new prescription.
My workload won’t be like this forever, it’s short term pain for long term gain. So I’m really nervous about flagging it to my boss as I don’t want him to stigmatise me or hinder me when I’ve successfully managed to hide it over the past few years and I’m confident that I can manage it once the pills have kicked in.
My gut is telling me to self cert for the rest of this week and say I have a stomach bug to allow the meds to start to work. But I’m keen to get the opinions of others to see if I’m making things more challenging by just not fronting up to it?
My workload won’t be like this forever, it’s short term pain for long term gain. So I’m really nervous about flagging it to my boss as I don’t want him to stigmatise me or hinder me when I’ve successfully managed to hide it over the past few years and I’m confident that I can manage it once the pills have kicked in.
My gut is telling me to self cert for the rest of this week and say I have a stomach bug to allow the meds to start to work. But I’m keen to get the opinions of others to see if I’m making things more challenging by just not fronting up to it?