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So I'm still in collage, doing a community worker degree, and I'm in my third week of placement.

I'm having two issues really. One is that I'm chronically tired to the point of popping caffeine pills and drinking too much tea, but the other is the strangeness of having a mental health issue - being where my clients have been including almost coming to this organization - and being on the other side of it. Listening to the workers talking, and knowing that none of them know even a little bit about what I've gone through.

I know where I'm working is a very accepting place, centred on taking care of people with MI, but for mental health workers they don't know as much as I though they would about MI! They're not rude or anything, but there is misinformation there I didn't expect to see. I can't bring myself to tell them about me, even if I need a break or I'm anxious about the task they set for me that day, and I can't bring myself to correct the misinformation.

[Webgoji]

I would devise a training class and present it to management. Tell them you can present the information and it will cover various mental illness to help keep everyone up to speed on the latest information. Also, it will be able to be recorded as a training program. Maybe even have some of the other people put on trainings as well. Get them all involved. It helps the organization and will get them the correct information without it seeming like you are being nitpicky and correcting their ignorance.

[Marshellette]

Ask for help from a disability resources company to make work more comfortable for you while you're there.