Thanks for this Anthony - you really are a star! I guess I'm still worrying far too much about what work will think of me. I can't explain to work the events that caused all this, cos I'm just too scared it will set things off. All I can do is explain that for the moment I need to avoid the avoidable stress so that I am in a reasonable state to deal with the unavoidable. If they don't want to work with me on achieving this, then I think I will be staying off work for considerably longer.

I'm hoping that they'll have time to sort this today - otherwise I'm going to end up worrying about it all weekend. I already have enough to think about, cos I'm going to see my parents on Monday - haven't told them that I'm having problems again - hoping they don't notice!

What complicated lives we make for ourselves!