[Can't Stop Crying]

My caseworker for short term disability is mean and unsupportive

traveling between insanity and reality

All these emotions that I'm feeling, I want them to go back where ever they were hiding

Worried about my job, my son, my family

want to cut to stop this pain

opened up Pandora's box when I started letting this stuff out and I can't get it to close again

I am drowning here

[pgrundy]

Yes, their goals are different than our goals--the short term disability caseworkers are there to find a reason not to grant paid time off to you, but it sounds like you have a good therapist and a pdoc, so getting back-up from them shouldn't be too hard. You really are going through the worst of it right now. If you can get through this part you'll see it start to ease in time, I promise.

Can you ask for help with this from your therapist and doctor? Maybe a letter or something stating you absolutely do need this extension?

Good luck to you! Try not to take the caseworker's personality personally (easier said than done!) Honestly they act that way to everybody, whether it's PTSD or a torn ligament, they don't care. Hang in there!

[FFABD]

I've been in that spot, of opening that box. I lacked the one thing you have, and that is courage to ask for help. It is a strength, even if it doesn't feel that way. I didn't ask and suffered needlessly long. I wish more than anything, for my kids, my family, my job, that I'd asked for help, just a little.

I hear you

hold on...

you are not alone

[Sannah]

Yeah, comes with the territory. Look for your support where you will find it - like here!