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AIBU?

Aibu - crap staff using mental health excuses

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Joiningthegang · 22/08/2013 20:30

Aibu to think that whilst there are many many people with genuine mental health issues, I am sooo pissed off that when crap member of staff is "found out" they play the mental Health stress card, get signed off sick and you can't really do anything about it.

I am mostly pissed off because they ruin it for the genuinely ill people.

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PresidentServalan · 22/08/2013 21:42

And the must have no calories because you can't actually SEE them!

BonaDea · 22/08/2013 21:43

I completely agree.

I work in the field and if everyone who submits a line saying they are stressed really is I'll eat my pants. Of course some people are genuinely affected by these issues but IMHO many people take the utter piss and should be ashamed of themselves

littlecloud · 22/08/2013 21:43

acer 12 the last part was.

Caff2 · 22/08/2013 21:43

Bi polar is popular? Ye gods, I've heard it all now. OP, how do you feel about ADHD as a condition, because I feel I have a clue about your answer...

usualsuspect · 22/08/2013 21:44

Poor tech will have to go to the 24 hour Tesco to buy some more biscuits.

japonicabumsplatt · 22/08/2013 21:44

In my last job (very very hard going) the LAST thing anyone would take is a Mental Health sickie (if such a thing existed) you feet wouldn't touch the fucking ground. can you guess what happened to me? oh, and just as an aside, it was a mental health position...go fucking figure kids. But then, if I take the OPs view, maybe I was just CRAP. Glad i got that all straight now.

Salmotrutta · 22/08/2013 21:44

I think the crappiest effects of mental health problems are felt by the sufferers and their nearest and dearest actually littlecloud...

TheOrchardKeeper · 22/08/2013 21:45

Aww you guys thanks.

I can maybe see how it looks like that I read that situation as someone who's maybe already in a bad patch (i.e just after a relapse/dip) and who's already struggling, receiving a reminder of a stressful event coming up. It wouldn't crack everyone with MH problems but it could easily be enough to make someone's life a temporary hell, as many people here have explained.

Ahh, jesus wept... Goes off to eat her

japonicabumsplatt · 22/08/2013 21:46

But you are bashing mental health OP. You are just you don't really know that you are. Your underlying dim view of mental health is soil from whence your thread has sprung...so don't back pedal now. stand your ground

TheOrchardKeeper · 22/08/2013 21:46

I also feel sorry for the people left to deal with the shit. I still would rather be stressed about that than in suicidal any day. Not quite the same...

littlecloud · 22/08/2013 21:47

I think rather than bipolar being popular as in trendy pop culture she may of meant it's being diagnosed more frequently. Popular effectively means a lot of people have it.

Salmotrutta · 22/08/2013 21:47

So you just "work in a field" do you BonaDea?

That sentence makes no sense-did you mean to qualify the "work in a field" part?

TheOrchardKeeper · 22/08/2013 21:47

My typing has gone shit because I have MH problems

japonicabumsplatt · 22/08/2013 21:48

As I feel OP there are many with you. Like my mum, who keeps asking me when I will get better....some sort of end date. then I won't be mad anymore and let folk down and what have you. the usual everyday shit that gets slung in the direction of MH people. the loons

PresidentServalan · 22/08/2013 21:49

Would you like some before you go, OrchardKeeper?

Salmotrutta · 22/08/2013 21:49

And popular means liked by many.

Montybojangles · 22/08/2013 21:49

So littlecloud, if this person had lets say, cancer, and required intermittent sick leave for treatments, check up etc. would your sympathy for their illness be equally lacking?

Caff2 · 22/08/2013 21:49

I kind of thought that mental health problems had lost their stigma. This thread has shown me that it's still better to try and soldier on with that "tummy upset" for unavoidable days off that will be more acceptable .

littlecloud · 22/08/2013 21:50

I am standing my ground yes I am highly peed off with the situation with my colleague, and rather not work with them at all if i'm honest but like I said I have had PND so know about depression. Still The way I am I just keep going just my mentality way I was brought up I guess.

Like how nobody has responded to how they would feel working in my environment with such a person bet you'd all get up really looking forward to your day at work.

TheOrchardKeeper · 22/08/2013 21:50

thanks

japonicabumsplatt · 22/08/2013 21:51

OP perhaps you weren't to know that this would happen. oh dear

usualsuspect · 22/08/2013 21:51

Which field do you work in ,Bonadea?

A field full of sheep? Are you a shepherd?

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Pollywallywinkles · 22/08/2013 21:51

I wouldn't wish mental health issues on anyone. Bloody horrid for sufferers and their nearest and dearest.

TheOrchardKeeper · 22/08/2013 21:52

p.s this thread reeks of 'if you just pulled your socks up' and that you can control how bad you feel/are affected.

You can't, obviously.

If this was a thread about physically ill people taking the piss then I think it'd have gone a very different way...

Caff2 · 22/08/2013 21:53

Little cloud, I would think of them the same as any other chronically ill
person with, for example, cancer or diabetes. Wouldn't you?

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