Care job affecting my mental health and I feel overworked

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My job is really beginning to affect my mental health. I work in care and there were some things and conditions before that I wasn't entirely happy with before but I continued on and focused on the positives.

This week has just been unreal. I don't know if it's the heatwave or what not. The lady I work for is worse than ever before just shouting orders at me. If she had half of a chance she would likely piss down my back or into my face. Ok, she wouldn't but she is worse now this week than ever before. Breaks even for water during this heatwave is limited. Bi am just expected to keep on going and going and going and work late while she eats at barbeques.

The sun is now beginning to make me sick too with migraines and I am in work hosesnyk ready to have a mental health breakdown and I am just not feeling well. The demands just keep going and going and going.

To make it worse I am supposed to provide a live in stint for this weekend too for a full week without even a day off and I realize now that the person I am working for just doesn't respect me as a person or worker. There's no way I am being painful appropriately to give up my live to work weeks on end like this.

I started work at 8.30 this morning. It is 10 pm at night and I am still in work. Any other job and I would be finished b the fuckers care more about the world cup than even trying to respect employment law, me or their disabled family member.

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OP. Seriously, I think you need to make an urgent appointment with your dr. Tell them you're in crisis. You sound like you are about to crack, you poor thing.

You really shouldn't go into work tomorrow - you're not in the right space to be able to look after anyone right now, least of all this person.
Take care of yourself.

You won't be subject to ongoing family wrath in a care home. Carers simply don't have time to spend with families. Honestly, ditch the one to one job. They're too intense. Go sick if you can afford it. It's not worth ruining your health for.

Can you afford to just leave? What's your living situation?

I've worked as a domiciliary carer and it's so challenging and draining. Luckily the agency I worked for was understanding and if you did not want to do particular calls they would pull you off them. Right now, you should call in sick and let them organise another care worker to go in.