I am going back to work this week after some time off because of my mental health problems.
I am highly functioning in outside work life - competitive sport, lots of friends and interests. I get by using humour, sarcasm and by using mantras and sayings to help me cope with trigger situations.
I use things like this link to focus on and to help me manage situations. (Hope the link works.)
At work I try to maintain this but it just gets me in to trouble all the time. I get into trouble for having anxiety attacks and fainting and then I get into trouble for using my coping mechanisms.
Can anyone please help me see through this confusion and fog? I have no idea how to move forward. I have found coping techniques and yet I can’t use them in the place I need them most.
I am so anxious about going back - dreading it. I just know it will all start again.