I haven’t worked for this company for over 3 years, and am in a different industry now, but I still get horrible flash backs about how they treated me after over working me.
I remember while working there I didn’t sleep much, hair was falling out, had 3 cellphones constantly going off for work, broke out in hives, gained a ton of weight, had numerous health conditions, was constantly stressed and snappy. Stress is a hell of a thing.
I was dumb and devoted all my time to that job, context I was second in command from the CEO. I still recall she handed me a lawsuit that she had received 2 weeks ago- handed it to me 24hrs before she left on vacation and told me to figure it out. I saved the company from a $750k lawsuit and got a gift card for $40.
When things got shakey because she was a control freak about peoples schedules, we had so many staff quit, I tried my best to mitigate. When I would work remote she would call my work phone 8 times an hour. Because she thought I was slacking off even tho we had a project management tracker. She ended up blaming everything on me because I was head of operations, I was dumb and signed the paper because I was so mentally checked out.
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How do you cope with horrible boss ptsd? I kept thinking I was over this but recently I get random flash backs and the crippling anxiety creeps up on me.