AIBU to have handed in a sick note?

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Hey
First time poster but long time lurker

I have been signed off work with anxiety. The doctor has changed my medication and given me a two week sick note. I have a 11 month old and since going back to work I am not dealing well. Not sleeping, not eating, I cry all the time
However work is being nasty about it. I have had messages from colleagues saying how much shit I've left them in, nasty remarks from managers.
Can they sack me for Handing a sick note in? I don't take sick really. I was off the second week I returned back because I was sick and we have a policy of not working for 48 hours. And I had to take a weekend off waiting for coronavirus results, had all the symptoms.
Thanks

Op you dont sound awful about not bonding with your baby. You sound like someone who is suffering with her mental health and that you haven't received the right kind of support that you're legally entitled to.

Screenshot everything from your colleagues and managers. Check your workplace sick policy. Contact your GP about potential post natal depression which is stopping you from bonding with your baby. You're already contacting ACAS. The point of taking time off from work with ill mental health is that you need time to recover, exactly the same as if you'd taken time off with a broken leg.

The correct amount of time to take off sick is however long you need until you're well enough to go back to work.

Considering what I said? I said it’s a long time to be off. It’s a fact? @EmeraldRaine piss off yourself

I advised OP to report her colleagues, it’s entirely inappropriate and unprofessional for them to be contacting her regarding this.

15 months of maternity leave she is legally entitled to, and furlough.

Not sickness. Maternity leave is not sick leave.

I didn’t say it was. I said on the whole it is a lot of leave.

HR

That is appalling.

Spend the time off looking after yourself and looking for another job

Keep any messages and lodge a grievance for workplace bullying.

I assume everyone else was furloughed? Then op happened to be on mat leave overlapping this, leave which she is entitled to have so not sure of the issue. Yes taking sick time after coming back it’s ideal but it’s not uncommon to go back to work after having a baby and struggle with mental health especially if you have pnd and struggled whilst off. It’s not just ‘plenty time to deal with anxiety’ if only it were that simple eh.

Get on to HR and ask your manager for an Occ health referral you sound like you’re really struggling and work is not the place for you until you feel better in yourself & work are not really helping at all by sounds of it. I get som people just think sickness is a weakness but that attitude needs to change it could happen to any one of us at any time. It’s not a choice!!

I’ve had a long time off work sick recently I’m desperate to go back but am not medically fit, thankfully my work are great despite being short staffed. However am fed up of people saying just go back do whatever you need to do or they’ll dismiss you that’s it. I am aware of employment law and my rights and what my employer needs to do to help me back to work and my obligations and I hope to go back very soon. However it is a process and I need to be reassessed by occ health speak to hr etc. People who cant help with correct and helpful information need to butt out it’s a hard enough time as it is worrying about your job, roof over your head etc.
Hope it works out for you op and get well

Yes everyone else was furloughed. The store opened in July but I was due in October. We were furloughed from March. When they called to bring staff back they told me I was too pregnant to come back and they couldn't risk it. Baby came in September. Went back in May