Opening up about my mental health to my boss

Hi there. I've been where you are. It's hard cause you try to be strong all the time but sometimes you just can't be and you breakdown which I think is totally okay or u ask for help. Hang in there. 😊

Your welcome Atlanta it really helps knowing that we can all help each other

Thank you so much everyone for all of your feedback - It really did help me feel less alone. My currently erratic brain is now thinking I need to go back to him and clarify again, like that I don’t expect special treatment…but I think I’m just over analyzing again and would just be making it worse haha Thank you so much again, your responses just made my day ❤️

I had a similar outburst confession to my professor yesterday because I've been manic with psychosis and it's been hard to get to class and focus on papers lately. I know what you mean it's so embarrassing to break down in front of people like that! I obsessed over why I should never have done that all night and couldn't sleep(not that I've been sleeping anyway but still). He actually had the councilor call me to try to schedule an appointment because he was worried about my erratic behavior and mentions of suicidal ideation. I've become so used to living with these thoughts that I'd forgotten you can get sent away for this stuff if you say it to the wrong person.

My managers know and they're really good about it. If your manager seems like a good person, they probably are. My managers have cut me a lot of slack

Yeah I know that feeling I open up to a boss of mine, it didn't exactly go over well I after that thought everybody was out to get me cuz they were always in a bad mood. And one day it just ended up with me losing my job, hopefully there's some way to make it to her other bosses. Can actually be sympathetic to the fact that I'm not the Mary Poppins kind, but I do understand what you're going through it's very difficult and. I found out that screen therapy which is where I yell like hell into my pillow does work, so does my fiance who's very understanding he lets me vent about everything and anything. Give screen therapy a try and see what happens, it's definitely embarrassing to open up about it because then you automatically feel everyday like you're an outsider.