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What do you think about someone who has a mental illness but doesnt take medication for it which results in 1-2 week absences at a time about once a year? Or once every other year?
Would you view it/treat it the same as someone whos out for a physical illness?
What if the employee were getting special priveleges like working from home because of this that no one else gets?
Mental illness is a disability as much as a physical one. Ultimately mental illness is physical because it is a a brain disease - brain chemicals that are malfunctioning.
People largely aren't interested to learn more about it therefore don't understand why it would be treated the same as physical problems. We also have to realize suicide is a physical manifestation of clinical depression gone too deep. Bi-polar and schizophrenia are severe.
I love how something traumatic happens and you're forced to go back to work depending on the situation the very next day... and People at work treat you like nothing happened, and you have to work at the same performance level that you did before it happened.
Not only do you have to do your job you have to do it as if nothing happened.
It's crazy how everyone else's life is so perfect and nothing happening and they just expect everyone else's life to be as perfect... if it's not perfect then "oh they're on drugs"
Idk I lost all respect for my job and people I work with after this traumatic situation just because I had to go back to work after 7 days... and everyone expecting me to work like nothing happened.
I love how something traumatic happens and you're forced to go back to work depending on the situation the very next day... and People at work treat you like nothing happened, and you have to work at the same performance level that you did before it happened.
Not only do you have to do your job you have to do it as if nothing happened.
It's crazy how everyone else's life is so perfect and nothing happening and they just expect everyone else's life to be as perfect... if it's not perfect then "oh they're on drugs"
Idk I lost all respect for my job and people I work with after this traumatic situation just because I had to go back to work after 7 days... and everyone expecting me to work like nothing happened.
Everyone has s**t they are dealing with. No one's life is perfect.
Those 'perfect' co-workers you're talking about have their own things that they are keeping hidden from co-workers as well.
1-2 weeks a year is not that big a deal. What is to say that if the employee was taking the medicine, he wouldn’t have the same number of absences. Many psychotropic medications have significant side effects and may cause fatigue, insomnia, lethargy, brain fog... someone might miss just as much work from those side effects as the illness itself. It can also take a long time to find one that works without detrimental side effects, if any work at all.
What do you think about someone who has a mental illness but doesnt take medication for it which results in 1-2 week absences at a time about once a year? Or once every other year?
That sounds like an ordinary vacation, since most folks get 2 weeks a year.
What do you think about someone who has a mental illness but doesnt take medication for it which results in 1-2 week absences at a time about once a year? Or once every other year?
Would you view it/treat it the same as someone whos out for a physical illness?
Mental illness is a physical illness. It's an illness of the brain.
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Originally Posted by bell235
Well i would but his work gets dumped on me... i do his job AND my job when he's out for 2 weeks with no extra compensation.
Who does your work when you go on vacation or call in sick?
Everyone has s**t they are dealing with. No one's life is perfect.
Those 'perfect' co-workers you're talking about have their own things that they are keeping hidden from co-workers as well.
Yep. We have several guys out with problems lately. One guy has kidney issues and is going back and forth to an out of area medical specialist a lot, working remotely. One guy's MIL passed away this week. We often don't know what's going in the personal lives of other people.
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