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Old Feb 15, 2012, 11:54 AM
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I've lost almost all all my jobs, due to not calling in when too depressed. I see now, I was supposed to call in.

tnlibrarian, Yup cannot call in sick when you are a stay at home mom, not ever, I get that.
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Old Feb 15, 2012, 01:57 PM
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I've called in sick when depressed, though never cited the depression itself. I too call it a mental health day, but I do believe that it is a genuine reason to call in. When I am depressed, I am sick. I try to get up and go as working often helps improve my mood, but some days I just can't and that's okay too.
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Old Feb 15, 2012, 02:49 PM
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I've lost almost all all my jobs, due to not calling in when too depressed. I see now, I was supposed to call in.

tnlibrarian, Yup cannot call in sick when you are a stay at home mom, not ever, I get that.
Sometimes I KNOW I will probably either lose my job, or get on the boss's shitlist if I don't call in. I don't say why, I just fake being sick and say I have a sore throat or something. Not like it matters, the fact is, I'm not coming into work.. and believe me, you don't want me there. haha
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Old Feb 15, 2012, 09:25 PM
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I've called in a lot over depression. It's how I function.
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Old Feb 15, 2012, 09:46 PM
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Bluemountains: "Lack of sleep may have me calling in today."

Yup, done that. Memorably, working looong graveyard shifts with 1 1/2 hour drives on both ends (gone from house 4 pm till 7 am next day). Let the boss know that I could not work back to backs (wasn't supposed to do any, but those shifts were all the work there was). Anyhow, tried to be a trooper and agreed to it once. HahahahahahaHA! Ended up calling, saying neighbors had woken me up (true, and I flipped my **** on them ) and with the lack of sleep, I'd be a danger and had no business getting behind a wheel. This was also true.

I never did mention anything about hallucinating though. On that or any other occasion, even without back to back. I don't really think it was on account of the BP, it just probably didn't help. There's only one disturbingly real hallucination that I can recall that there was no way I could blame on, well, anything! (I can usually come up with some kind of, uh, potentially reasonable expanation. ) Yeah, there are a few stories there... None of which I plan to share with the boss, lol.

I really try not to call in because of depression. They go on in a bad way for far too long and that just wouldn't work. One day will be just as horrible as the next, so...I drag my sorry *** in. Useless, but there.

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Old Feb 15, 2012, 10:46 PM
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I called off work today because I was too depressed to go in. I didn't want to be around anyone. I knew that if I was there and quiet, people would ask questions. How do you tell people that you just want to cry and don't know why? I am afraid they would talk bad about me......so I just stayed home.
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Old Feb 16, 2012, 06:28 PM
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My work/school performance is inconsistent due to Bipolar. I usually start a new job or school with intense motivation. I'll be the top student and best employee ever. Then crash. I've missed a lot of work and class because of Bipolar. Sometimes I'm too depressed to get out of bed or do any school work. I'll lose care about if I'm fired or fail. When manic I do too much with no set boundaries and almost always this is followed by a crash.

My crashes have caused me to suddenly quit jobs. I went from a 4.0 in school to dropping out ruining my GPA. A few years ago I was doing awesome at a new job then one day quit through text. I am still to this day ashamed of how I left my co-workers a burden. But now I'm treated and this problem is subsiding.
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Old Feb 19, 2012, 04:02 PM
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I've missed tons if work bc of my bipolar, depression and eating disorder. I've gone out on FMLA family medically leave act. It gets so bad I can't function at. Act allows you up to 26 week of paid leave, although at a much less % than what u would typically earn nut it allows you time to get yourself back to where u feel ok enough to go back. Iv had to go out a couple times and it's greatly bennifeted me.
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Old Feb 19, 2012, 04:15 PM
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I also call it a mental health day or a mental health holiday ... Strangely enough I haven't needed one recently, but the next time I do, I certainly won't hesitate to take it ...

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Old Feb 19, 2012, 04:24 PM
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I have never called out of work, but I have been sent home before for behavior that hasn't been acceptable at work. Lost many jobs over it. But I never told my employers about my Bi-Polarism, because most of the jobs I do don't allow someone with a mental illness to do them. (Flight Attendant, Truck Driver, Airport personell etc)
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Old Feb 19, 2012, 06:08 PM
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Here is something that struck me on this subject many times of many threads on this subject. Many people seem to have FMLA, vacation/sick days, paid or unpaid leave etc. available at their job. I've never had a job with ANY of these...luxuries (in 33 years of working). Really, they're accomodations to reality, but I am jealous, so "luxuries" it is, lol. If I had, then yes, I would have used them. (It's a common misconception that because FMLA is the law of the land, they have to do it. Not so. There are exemptions for some businesses and exclusion from obligation towards some employees.) Always part time and at very small businesses, you do the math.
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I've spent many hours psyching myself up just to make it in the door... tell myself it's "just one more day" and that I can "make it". I think about burrito's and how much I love them. I do all kinds of stuff just to make it in, other times I'm on 'autopilot' for a month or two and I don't even remember going to work or what happened. Those times make it easier, it's when I'm conscious and stressed that it's the most difficult.
SOOO MUCH THIS. (Burritos included, though I've never used them as a motivator, lol!) I plod over, am useless, don't give a ****, am barely conscious, but, by God, am there. Outside of a VERY few call ins, in my world, calling in = fired. (Asking for leave? Lol. Don't bother. No such thing. It's called "quitting". See ya!) And as much as I don't care, it's really not an option. It's probably fortunate that I have a ridiculously strong work ethic and sense of duty to others, because I know damn well that if I didn't feel perversely obligated to be there (even to jobs I hate, which is basically all of them), what I would do. 'Nuf said. (Or worse, have to explain myself. You think I'm joking.)
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... I knew that if I was there and quiet, people would ask questions. How do you tell people that you just want to cry and don't know why? I am afraid they would talk bad about me...
I'm terrified of and can not stand having to explain myself. So I don't. They can... how to put this nicely... go away. Hell, if they're going to talk about me anyway, why hand 'em ammo? So I don't. Besides, they've seen it often enough and figure that's just the way I am. Which it is. I'm not a socializer, so it's not like they know my business or give a flip about my life anyway. I don't mean that in a dramatic "woe is me" way, just as simple fact. I'm a very private person. People can "know" me for years and not know me at all.

Mostly it's depression, which... guess they find easier to ignore. When it's not? Frankly, they're probably scared of me. Either because I won't back down or because they don't know what to make of my behavior... what to do but step aside and think, "WTH?!" Or laugh, because I can get pretty damn funny. Or order me to take a break if on the edge of a flip-out. (Or I'll run in a storeroom or something.)

It's better with meds, but still... it's really hard and many's the day I don't think I can do it anymore.
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Old Feb 19, 2012, 07:29 PM
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I used to work at a car dealership (was there for 5 years) and called out quite often, didn't show up for days at a time, quit 14 or 15 times (they always called me back and still do, they must be crazy), and would try (subconciously I think) to get thrown out by losing my cool all the time. I assume it was because I have a terrible temper and my obsessive thinking that makes it worse. I wish I had answers to help you out, but I can only say I understand what you're saying.
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