I'm employed but currently on sick leave. I absolutely love my job and the company I work for. But since last year I have a new manager who's just the worst. The stress level in the team just went skyrocketing since he has the most obnoxious way of managing people: divide and conquer. People became very distressed in the team and stopped trusting each other. A colleague had a burn out and went on sick leave. There were and are many complaints against him, including sexual harassment. Unfortunately he has not been fired until now, his manager is waiting for his contract to end so she does not have to fire him (Dutch Labour Law is quite strict with employers).
Lately I realized I was not keeping up with the amount of tasks, my concentrating had gone down the drain, my memory sometimes was just blank and I would almost faint with so much anxiety before a meeting or presentation with directors. Until it hit me very hard last month and I just called HR to inform I was sick. Since then I'm on sick leave, luckily the company cannot fire me or oblige me to go back to work before I get better. And still my reintegration is going to be slowly, there's a company doctor following up my case and his job is to support the employee not the employer. But still it sucks because it's hard for me to switch off my mind from work and not to think about my projects.

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