I am just so sick of being a magnet for everyone elses problems at work.
I am never off sick, I have a form of schizophrenia and often feel exhausted, depressed and worry about the future, I have quite severe medication side effects and often feel rough.
But nonetheless I am a professional and soldier on, I do not bore people with my problems and I work really hard. Nobody knows what my situation is because I maintain a professional work front at all times.
Yet I have three people who are basically always off sick, always in trouble with management, always crying about anything and everything on my shoulder and piling all their problems onto me.
Sometimes they insist on working with me all day and I find dealing with them utterly shattering because they insist on telling me their problems all day long - most of which are self inflicted and quite frankly I just don't care.
How the hell did I get sucked into this? How do I get their tentacles off me before I really lose my shit?
I've been through hell and back the last few years and I really do not need this constant soul sucking behaviour. it's basically psychic vampirism. I need to get rid of them and start caring only about my own work but I just don't know how.
it's impossible to concentrate when one or other of them is yabbering away at me all day long.
Help?