Really hoping my job doesn’t find this, but I work in [not going to say but it’s a VERY high stress field], and I was hospitalized for 4 (work) days involuntarily. A psychiatrist had to contact my work with a note that I was in the hospital since I had no access to my phone. I had hoped that they wouldn’t try to research what this specific hospital was for- but I think they knew since multiple upper staff members (some of whom I’ve never met) introduced themselves and began talking to me often. In the first few days of coming back to work, I was eating lunch in one of our two break rooms and saw a bunch of new crisis posters.
At first I sort of chuckled, but then it hit me- that’s it. That’s the extent of what they will do for people with mental health issues. Three posters with the suicide hotline number and “You are not alone”
Sometimes I feel like $16 an hour isn’t worth it.