I recently hinted a little bit at work, wasn't really planning on it, was more of an emotion-based spur-of-the-moment thing.
We had a customer who in my opinion was clearly unstable. The customer really shook up Coworker A with her ridiculous attitude and behavior, and Coworker A seemed to feel like it was a very personal attack. So I tried to soothe Coworker A by pointing out that the customer definitely just seemed mentally unstable. Coworker B made a small face at my comment, which snapped me into awareness that they might have a MI, too, and feel hurt by the comment. So I quickly added, "I'm not always stable, so that's how I know." Coworker B added, "I haven't been stable lately." Coworker A asked why, Coworker B responded that they have been doing worse and worse over the past few months. Coworker A commented that they're not always stable, either, but are good at hiding, cracked a joke that they just have secret meltdowns inside their head sometimes. Then we had to disperse to do more work.
So it was a bit interesting. No labels were mentioned or anything like that, but unsurprisingly I guess more people deal with mental health things than is apparent on the surface.
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