Hi All,

Hope everyone's Sunday is good.

I saw my pdoc on Thursday and he said if my workload/work stress is not addressed he'll be putting me on long term leave again (was off for 9 weeks last year). I hadn't been doing well and he doubled my meds.

So... I have to have a conversation with my boss tomorrow to try to sort it out. Realistically I don't think anything will change, but at least I'll have told him.

I don't know how to go about having this conversation - what to say and so on. I'm really rubbish at these things. Knowing me I'll just roll over and absorb even more work.

My boss knows I have this condition and that work could be impacted and he said I should tell him if that's the case. And then he forgets everything about it.

There's one thing in particular I want to get rid of. I have to organise a conference - this has nothing to do with my job. The thought of it makes me feel sick. I have zero energy or motivation for this. A wall goes up in my brain when I think about it. I've already started with the work so it might be hard to 'give it back'. And I don't know how to say 'no' to things.

Anyone got any ideas? I'm in Europe so employment situations are a bit different - I'm not going to get fired, for example. But there are also no 'accommodations'. I'm more concerned with how to conduct the conversation rather than with the consequences (at this stage anyway ), you know?

Thanks for reading,
BB