Mental health at work

[namechanger9101]

I have a colleague who has recently returned to work after been off sick for 12 weeks. She was off with depression caused by work and since her return it has had a negative impact on the team.
Last week she spent an hour of her shift crying in the office with the manager this is happening regularly. The jobs that she is doing are not been completed which means someone else has to do them.
She has now told the manager she is self harming so the manager is giving her less work to do.
Another member of staff has had one of his jobs taken off him for her to do even though it was agreed that it was a reasonable adjustment for him when he returned to work.
It’s a struggle as she works full time as it feels we are one full timer down and everyone is getting stressed.
I know it must be hard for her but it is starting to affect everyone else and only a matter of time before someone else gets signed off sick.

I'd be brutally honest with her. Her behaviour is now causing the whole team issues and honestly she shouldn't be back at work if she's not able to do her job, if it's that bad that she's harming herself, she needs to quit instead of making everyone else miserable.

@Product3257 be honest with her or the manager?

We have spoken to the manager about our concerns about work not been done but she is ignoring us

@namechanger9101 with your colleague. Your manager should be telling her she needs to take more sick leave or putting her on reduced duties/hours until she's better but if that's not happening, you should be honest with the woman yourself

I'd be very careful about saying anything directly to your colleague.
I believe its a grey area but certain issues with mental health can be classes as a disability and you colleague is clearly struggling.
If what you say is misinterpreted, you could be pulled up for bullying or harassment, even if it is with the best intentions.
Your manager should not be ignoring your concerns, it's affecting most of the team which is not ok, your colleague sounds like she needs to be on severly reduced hours or on sick leave. It's your managers responsibility to look into this.
Do you have an alternative manager you could speak to?

Absolutely DO NOT follow this advice.

It is not your role or the role of any colleague to make things ten times worse by ganging up on someone who is having a mental health crisis and self-harming. That is called bullying, and you will (quite rightly) be held responsible if anything bad happens as a result.

This is a management issue, and if you have spoken to your manager without resolving the problem of how you manage your work, then there is a process that you and your collegaues can follow. You submit a formal written grievance to her outlining the problems that you are having with too much work to do, and if that is rejected you escalate it to their manager.

The issue here is workload not your colleague. If she is unable to manage the amount of work she has and that is falling to the rest of you, who subsequently also cannot manage, then you also couldn't manage when she was off sick for 12 weeks and won't manage if your drive her off work again. Tackle the workload issue, not the person who you are blaming for the workload. She is neither responsible for her health problems (which you state were caused by work anyway) not for the workload - managemnt are responsible for both and it is uyp to them to deal with the issues.