Afternoon all, i'm just on here to have a moan about work mostly and get things off my chest!!
Just under 2 years ago i was diagnosed with graves disease/hyperthyroid and last year things got too much for me and i was signed off work for 7 weeks with depression. When i agreed to come back to work i spoke to my manager about reducing my hours so that i drop 1 hour a day and only work 4 days a week. I felt this would help me cope a little better at balancing my work/home life. As a single mom to a 5 yr old tornado i find keeping my home tidy hard when i was leaving at 7am and getting home at 7pm. I applied and everything was going ok then they said i couldn't go down to 4 days a week because there aren't enough staff to cover that one day - although if i wanted to buy extra holiday and take annual leave one day a week this would be ok 
Now i have been carrying on but i'm still struggling! I don't want to go back to the drs and just be given tablets again and maybe signed off again as i feel like people would be judging me that i don't really need it - but almost everyday at work i find myself crying in the toilet!! I'm on the verge of just quitting but then i know that financially i would just end up struggling!! Plus i have been in this job for 9 years and when my brain is working i am pretty good at it!!
I honestly don't know what to do with myself right now - has any one else been the same?!