Dispondent Daisy: I hope it's comforting to you to see others in the same boat. Like the others my story fits to a tee. Like you I waited for the right moment to move away from a verbally abusive boss. I was sensitive and a softy and she knew it. I was making excellent money so it was even harder to leave.

I would like to say my story had a happy ending but it did not. My first month-long hospitalization (bp) was a direct result of the effects she had on me. I was hospitalized a couple more times. Two in my healthcare team told me she was the worst thing that ever happened to me.

Eventually I was downgraded and at least I was out from under her and had a very low-stress if low-paying job for the first time in my life. Next, they got rid of me. I figure with my excaberated illness, I had become a threat and high-maintenance. Now I have no job and likely will not again.

I tell this not to scare you but to let you know there are other choices and you can stand against this. My illness also had everything to do with my situation so please consider that. I had to seriously rethink what the word "job" meant as well as what stress was worth it and what stress I could handle. My "low-end" job was far more tolerable than other jobs. For me I realized they don't pay you a lot of money for it to be a cakewalk.

I confronted HR several times about her with pretty much no results. Confronting her was almost impossible given the relationship. My therapists gave me over 2 years' support on this one problem alone. It was really out of control.

I hope this lengthy sharing is of some help to you. My heart goes out as I have been in your shoes.