I work for an external company where I am expected to work in an institution most of the week.
Being entirely honest, it's highly stressful and the service users I support can be jarring meaning my mental health is currently suffering. The staff at the institution aren't particularly nice, so I don't feel supported either, possibly as I'm external? and I think I just need a day away to just breathe, and maybe cry, who knows.
Next week I plan to go to the company's main office for a day to get some work done as I have 3 deadlines as if I'm distracted by clients demanding my time at the institution it'll mean I'll be needing to do overtime to meet the deadlines.
However, I figured that if I tell the company I'm at the institution for that day and the institution I'm at the company I could effectively work from home. It's unlikely anything would flag up and if it did maybe I'll quit and be Ok with that because I spend my downtime, leisure time, and even dream about work almost nightly because it's so time consuming.
My take home here is that my mental health comes first. Working from home means I can just have a day away from it all. I will still be working same hours just minus the commute and needing to be around people when I just don't want to be right now.