Signed off with stress

[Signedoff]

Visited my doctor today and they suggested signing me off work with stress. I’ve said I’ll have to think about it as I’m really anxious about doing this, though can see 100% why they have suggested it.

I have a Director level role at a big company with good benefits and solid HR team. I know I’d be treated decently by them but I feel like this would be a huge black mark on my CV and I’d never be seen the same again.

Would my employer disclose this in future if I looked for another role? For example, I’ve completed reference requests myself that ask for ‘how many sick days has this employee taken over the last 12 months’ etc.

I’m ironically worrying myself sick about being signed off sick 🤢

Hey, how are you feeling?
I hope you managed to find a solution- please let us know. All the comments here are really helpful!
I'm actually currently dealing with so much work stress myself, major changes in the way my company operates and a change of my direct manager. Im middle management, I have 3 levels of management above me. I'm in change of 20-30 employees at a time but my new direct manager is very b**chy, sneaky and just found out that I've been blamed for things I haven't done to cover his back in front of the big bosses. Loads of occasions and seemingly small things that I can't really go and justify and explain to them. But all adds up and I've had a lot of personal stress, distraction from everything and panic attacks as well as mood swings and forgetfulness as a result. It's the fact that my boss is so arrogantly insolent and powerful and everyone above is blinded to his evil ways that makes me so upset, it's not fair, he's unprofessional, lazy, always late, always manages to cover his mistakes or blame others, he's very good at playing competent and know-it-all, he even managed to get his other colleague sacked by inventing lies!!!! It's so frustrating. I'm supposed to be making my DH birthday cake as we speak and instead I'm sitting hyperventilating, tingling forehead and fingers, lightheaded and I keep rethinking the events of each day at work over and over wishing I'd come up whim this the correct comeback at the time(several occasions). It's so unfair!!! 😕

Ha! @SunnyS76 this sounds scarily like an individual I worked with, he describes his leadership style as 'wise', FFS, it'd be almost laughable if he wasn't such a toxic tosser who contributes to a similarly toxic work culture

@Signedoff I do hope you've been able to allow yourself to take time off, sometimes we need the space that comes with time to understand what we think & feel & what we can do about that