I need a new attorney. Back to laying in bed. My leave status was scheduled to end last week - but I had been calling and emailing for two weeks. So, when do I find out I'm supposed to return to work on Tuesday? At 5:30 p.m. on Friday. And what are the details of them meeting my medical accomodations needs? I'll find out about my telecommuting schedule when I get there. What about the 3 pages of other acccomodation needs - including reassignment? They are refusing all of them. But the EEOC process takes 180 days. Since I only have 3 weeks of vacation and sick leave left - I'm sure they'll figure a way to fire me by then. Never mind that in about 6 months I will most likely get a favorable ruling from EEOC. Gotta fucking love it. My doctor says I have PTSD as a result of their bullshit. I'm not a victim type either. But if I wasn't so depressed from the crap, I'd go back with a "no verbal communication" directive from my doctor and see how well that worked on a telecommute schedule - I'd never interact at all! But I'm not that person - I actually have a work ethic and moral integrity - unlike them. So, to my opener, my current lawyer isn't as assertive/aggressive as I'd like - I want a tougher one - anyone know a good labor attorney in DC specializing in disability law? Egads.
So back to my old question - how do you know you're depressed:
When your dog craps on the floor of your beautiful, brand new home and you let it sit there until it turns hard - walking past it several times a day - for days.
When you measure your sleep - not in hours per night, but nights per week - and you have prescriptions for four or more sleep aids that have all failed to work.
When you have only been to a grocery store 2 times on over 3 months because you really don't want to leave your house.
When you go back on SSRI's because you don't care if they give you sexual side effects (okay, I got a prescription for erectile dysfunction to counter impact them - not that I've used the ED script).
When you don't answer your phone even for your friends and your mother calls your friends because she's worried because you haven't called her and you don't answer her calls (if you don't have anything nice to say....) and when they show up at your house to check, you don't answer the door - having taken the key out of the lock box to stop them from coming in too.
When you start to question if you really need to even brush your teeth if you haven't eaten.
When you do leave your house, you come home to realize you left the door to your deck wide open for five hours while your house is unoccupied and it faces a street - not a yard (fortunately nothing missing, but plasma tv's are so much easier to steal than the tubes and you just replaced the last tube in your house...maybe someone is hiding in the closet waiting for nightfall).
When you have a weekly psychiatry bill of $600+ and your doctor is "off plan"
When you actually write down your certifiable behavior so total strangers can read it.....
So back to my old question - how do you know you're depressed:
When your dog craps on the floor of your beautiful, brand new home and you let it sit there until it turns hard - walking past it several times a day - for days.
When you measure your sleep - not in hours per night, but nights per week - and you have prescriptions for four or more sleep aids that have all failed to work.
When you have only been to a grocery store 2 times on over 3 months because you really don't want to leave your house.
When you go back on SSRI's because you don't care if they give you sexual side effects (okay, I got a prescription for erectile dysfunction to counter impact them - not that I've used the ED script).
When you don't answer your phone even for your friends and your mother calls your friends because she's worried because you haven't called her and you don't answer her calls (if you don't have anything nice to say....) and when they show up at your house to check, you don't answer the door - having taken the key out of the lock box to stop them from coming in too.
When you start to question if you really need to even brush your teeth if you haven't eaten.
When you do leave your house, you come home to realize you left the door to your deck wide open for five hours while your house is unoccupied and it faces a street - not a yard (fortunately nothing missing, but plasma tv's are so much easier to steal than the tubes and you just replaced the last tube in your house...maybe someone is hiding in the closet waiting for nightfall).
When you have a weekly psychiatry bill of $600+ and your doctor is "off plan"
When you actually write down your certifiable behavior so total strangers can read it.....