To feel like I need to take time off work?

[FigTree123]

I feel so overwhelmed at the moment. Workload is relentless, flexibility that we used to have doesn't exist anymore, and my commute is a killer. It seems to have got much worse since I started in the role around covid time. I am stressed about things in my home life too and just find myself mentally juggling a million things and trying not to either cry in work or shout at someone. I'm managing the minimum expected of me at work but just cannot concentrate on anything bigger. Would it be bad of me to take some time off sick? I feel like I should just be able to get on with things but I'm really struggling.

I'm sorry you're feeling like this. I can understand why you'd want to take some time off, but I think you'd have to think about how things will improve before you have to go back. For example will you be looking for a different role or will you be getting some talking therapy etc? If not, it might be even harder to return afterwards, which would ultimately be counterproductive.

Take the time off, but remember that nothing changes if nothing changes.
If you take time off, unless you make some changes such as looking for a different job, then you will just go back to the same thing and end up in the same cycle.

@XenoBitch @Plusplug you're both absolutely right. I have been trying to manage my stress and have a counselor that I have been working with. I'm also regularly looking for a new role but jobs in my field rarely come up, and even more rare to find something closer to home

Do you feel you have burnout? When at home Just sleep, clean, eat and work? Feel ill all the time? Not sleeping? Crying all the time at the thought of work or the effort of going to work.

this was me and I had a million home things going on too. I was a shell and couldn’t cope constantly thinking I would need time off and not taking it. I looked at colleagues and they coped. Why couldn’t I. They were no different.

I was doing the bare minimum badly.

i didn’t take time off as I feared it would be the end of my job or career (I’d find it too hard to go back) but I did go to the GP and get some antidepressant and it was the best thing. I’m happy and me again. Love my job again. It depends if there is anything intrinsically wrong at work?