Unable to function

[chippylips]

I’ve had hectic couple of months in work coupled with some health worries around elderly much loved relative. To my utter shame I teared up in work and couldn’t stop crying. This came after a particularly difficult meeting. Normally this would be something I could easily cope with. But today I feel the way you do after a long cry. Wrung out. Can’t shake the feeling, and find myself unable to start the most basic tasks. Everything seems incredibly overwhelming and I’ve never experienced this before. For clarity I love my job and the people I work with. I’m on HRT and wondering if I need to look at my dose or is this just what burnout feels like?

It's your mind and body telling you to take a break, listen to it. Yes, it might be inconvenient for your job for you to take a couple of weeks now but nothing like if you ignore it and then have to have a couple of months off.

You are not a machine.

Sounds like you are burnt out/overwhelmed. I have been through similar recently, death of a loved one, eldest going to uni, problems at work(not me personally but a lot of upheaval).
I think it’s a good thing you could cry and let it all out - maybe a bit inconvenient but it’s healthy to let our emotions out.
I had found myself becoming increasingly short tempered (not like me) and finding things really difficult that normally wouldn’t be an issue (like going to do the weekly shop and not knowing what to buy, just kind of freezing)
I don’t have much advice except to say that I hear you and totally get it.
try and be kind to yourself and take time to just pause and do some things that are nurturing/enjoyable. Hot baths, reading, podcasts, walking, that kind of thing.
and work can survive without you for a bit so if you need a bit of time off then put yourself first xxx