How am I going to make it through this week?
It’s been a rough last couple of months. I’ve got a lot I’m dealing with, but most immediately having to go to work tomorrow. And then again, and then again, all the way until Friday. It’s Sunday night and Mother’s Day was its own kind of stressful for me. But I don’t have the leniency to take a mental health day- I had the flu recently, needed to call out multiple days, and then I had an impromptu family event I was expected to be at. Now, as my boss put it, my “Coworkers are gonna kill me if I call out sick again” so to speak.
It’s a lose-lose, I either have to go to work and bear through the melancholy and monotony, or I have to accept the consequences of losing reputation by, once again, needing to call out.
Either way, it sounds exhausting. What do you do to hype yourself up for a long work week while also struggling with depression?