One you will probably all relate to!
Coming up with a 'viable' physical excuse (stomach pain, the trots, flu) for being off sick for a few days with mental health/stress symptoms.
Hope you all have a cracking day
Yeah, been there....but it is not a good 'habit' to get in to. It provides a temporary fix but you still have to face your anxieties at some point and are just putting things off.
I know it is far from easy but after many years of constant worrying about - in the main - trivialities in life it took the breakdown of my marriage twelve months ago to sort out my mind. Don't get me wrong, I was in a dark place for several months having moved out of the family home but aside from having the first two days off work and speaking to my GP who offered to sign me off for a couple of weeks I just bit the bullet, refused and got back into my work. It was very hard but I just knew that sitting alone, ruminating and (most likely) drinking would drive me down into a deeper, darker hole.
I am not trying to suggest this is the answer for everybody but sometimes we have to look beyond the moment and think about the future because believe me the sun will still come up tomorrow and the world will still continue spinning. There are good people out there who are prepared to give you a lift through your woes but you need to invite them in and hiding away will not help.
I cannot impress upon anyone enough the need to talk, talk, talk. Don't be ashamed - you can rest assure that literally everyone on this planet will face trauma of some sort in their lives. It is just a case of how each of us deal with it and that, I am afraid, is something that we need to learn for ourselves but bottling up those anxieties and fears is definitely not the way to do it.
