I miss a lot of work due to my illness and am on FMLA. Yesterday and today I missed work due to some anxiety issues that kind of came out of the blue, not sure why? When I go back to work I know that I am going to have some of my co-workers give me what I call the stare. In the past year I finally came out at work about the Bipolar and OCD because I had enough about hiding everything. I knew there would be people that understood and others that just don't believe in mental illness as a disease. I also get the deer in headlights look when I try to talk to my Mom about it. My husband has Crohns disease and everyone seems to not judge him when he misses work, but I feel differently when it comes to my co-workers or family. Does anyone feel this way?