#WorkLifeBalance #MentalHealth #Guilt #SelfCare
Hey there, fellow office worker! 🌟 So, you’re feeling guilty about taking a sick day after working extra hard and dealing with added stress on a summer Friday. It’s totally understandable to feel this way, but it’s important to prioritize your mental health and well-being. Here are some thoughts and tips to help you stop feeling guilty:
– Remember that taking care of yourself is not something to feel guilty about. It’s necessary for your overall health and productivity.
– Acknowledge that it’s okay to set boundaries and take a break when needed.
– Consider discussing your feelings with a trusted colleague or friend for support.
– Practice self-compassion and remind yourself that you deserve rest and relaxation.
So, how can you stop feeling guilty about taking a sick day? By recognizing that your well-being is a top priority, and that it’s okay to take time for yourself when necessary. Remember, self-care is not selfish! Take care and feel better soon. 💖 #SelfLove
Don’t work overtime unless you are directed to and compensated for it. You might think you are helping your performance, but you’re demonstrating that you don’t value the separation between work and personal time. You’re also normalizing working in your personal time for your entire team’s culture, which will just increase the occurrences of people expecting other people (like you) to be working outside of work hours.
In the future, practice setting better boundaries with your work. “Sorry, I won’t be able to help with this until Monday since it’s the end of the workday.” Then log off and go home.
> So i basically worked 6 am until 4 pm on a summer hour day and was angry and bawling my eyes out all day because i had other things to do.
To add, I see my former self in this post. I used to worship achievement and perfectionism and would grind my mental health into dust if it meant getting a perfect score. I could not decline a task because it would mean disappointing people. Asking for help or relaxation was a failure. I would throw myself at the wall to please others.
Please consider talk therapy, it really helped me to actually accept, believe, and practice asserting that “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”. When you believe the value of your own time and self worth, defending it — setting boundaries — comes naturally.
After being laid off three different times in my career, I no longer have any fucks to give. The first job I left 3 weeks of sick time on the table. Could have used that for interviewing, job hunting, mental health or just to spend time with my toddler. But nope. I was raised to view my job as my personality.
The job is just that. A job. Not a mission. Not a calling. Not my personality. Not my life.
I no longer feel guilty about mental health days. The job is there for me to earn money to have a life outside those 40 hours. It was suggested that I needed to work 60 hours a week recently. Why? Been there six years. In spite of raises I’m making 20% less now because of inflation. They should be glad I’m not just taking a day a week off to keep things in balance.