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Originally Posted by piglet  From this forum, I get the general impression that wanting to maintain a full-time job when you have PTSD may be unrealistic. Anyone who wants to prove this impression wrong - please feel free to say so!!!!
I love my job and want to keep it, but I have come across significant barriers with respect to my employer's response to my diagnosis. I am currently trying to resolve this issue, which may end up in court if things keep going the way they have been. This is not what I want, but I won't be forced to quit my job due to unreasonable manager types. I fully intend to keep on going until my rights in the workplace are upheld. So there. :dummy-spi |
:wall: I feel exactly the same way you do, Piglet...I am supposed to be a full-time teacher, have been teaching at this school for three years, and thought I had a good relationship with my boss. Despite my filing all the proper paperwork and getting TDI for my days off, my principal won't get off of my back for working a reduced schedule. We have no union at my school and she's stressing me out so much I have the added anxiety of trying to go to work and hope she will just leave me alone to teach. I love my kids and don't want to abandon them by going on a full-time leave, but I'm going completely nuts. It doesn't help to hear other teachers talking behind my back about my using this as an excuse for a vacation. I live in Hawaii and everyone is in their own little bubble. Even the most educated people here don't know where the middle east is on a map, much less Lebanon...I feell SOOOOO alone!
I have no idea what you've gone through that brought on the PTSD, but I was stuck in Lebanon this past summer and lost friends there and came very close to dying myself. It took them weeks to get us out of there ?(I'm a U.S. citizen) and I still keep waking up every night hearing the planes and bombs. I know it's in my head but that just makes me feel crazier once I calm myself down. I am seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist (who wants to do nothing but shove pills down my throat.) It's slowly helping...at least I can sleep most of the night now with a ton of meds.