Teaching colleague Dad will not let her take mental health sick leave?

[lokngt53]

Teaching colleague is 24 and lives with her parents, she has told me she could never go on mental health related sick leave as the idea would horrify her Dad. She says her Dad is very old fashioned and talks about when he was her age he was working down the mine 12 hours a day and her great grandfather fought in the world war. The idea of being paid while not at work would make him so angry.

My colleague is mentally fine by the way, she isn't thinking about needing to take time off work but her Dad's attitude makes me feel worried for her?

AIBU to advice her its best if she moves out?

I'll put aside that it's none of your business, and anyway, it's hypothetical.

my Mum, who'd worked in factories all her life, couldn't understand why I was tired, because I worked in an office

how could I be tired, if I'd been sat down all day?

some folk (my Mum, your colleagues Dad) have limited imaginations of world's they've never experienced.

I guess most of us do.

yours is a non issue, in my opinion.

I'm on sick leave for mental health reasons and my Dad told me if I did it'd ruin my career etc. He knows I'm in therapy and he knows that I'm currently waiting for a non recent sexual abuse trial but he still thinks it's most important that I get up and go to work. He doesn't know I've been signed off for the last 8 weeks I've not told any of my family because I cba with his reaction but I live half an hour away.
So your friend probably should move out but at the end of the day it's her life and she can share or not share with him as she sees fit.

Tell her Dad to teach Y9 French P5 on a Friday for a few years. See how he feels then.

I'm 50 and both my grandfather's died in the wars (one in 1 and one in 2).

If at 24 her grandparents were in the war, she is a very late baby to old parents, who could have been born to old parents.

ww2 ended 1945, so parents could have been born 1965? then had kids at 40?

I'm 54 and my paternal GD fought WW1.

The last deep coal mine in Emgalnd closed in 2015, there were several remaining well into the 90s.