My husband works in an incredibly high pressured, stressful job where the demands on him have continually increased as redundancies have been made to other staff. He is continually being told how valued and essential he is etc, but his pleas about managing the workload have not led to change.
he has a long history of anxiety and panic attacks (medicated) but in our 10 years together, think he’s probably taken 3 sick days (for flu etc). He’s an exceptionally hard worker who is dedicated to his job.
However, he is falling apart. He had a panic attack at work this week and had to leave. He hasn’t been able to eat / sleep.
The situation is slightly more complicated in that I have complex medical and health needs (registered disabled to give indication of the support I require) and we have a 3 year old so he definitely has to do far more at home than the majority of the posts I read about DHs! He’s the most phenomenal hands-on, fully committed and devoted dad (and DH but seems beside the point!) Ultimately, our daughter needs him well.
We know he has a good sick leave policy, it’s a huge corporate company, but not the details as he hasn’t wanted to log on to the system.
AIBU to support him to decide to go on work related stress and anxiety leave?
if not, and you agree with my view he needs to prioritise himself and his own mental health (not the needs of the company) , do you have any advice about how to do so?
He saw the GP and logged it as stress/anxiety, but also spoke about feeling physically unwell (which we can now see is the anxiety from not eating , sleeping etc).