Some people don’t seem to care or maybe work colleagues are too busy to notice, some might not be aware of what is going on and you don’t want all of them to know about it anyway. So very few do know about the dark clouds hanging over my head.
There are three different groups –
- The ones that genuinely care and ask and just know you had a rough night or weekend and give you a hug in the morning.
- The ones that should care and be compassionate because they have been in similar situations are usually the ones that give your more crap about your downtime.
- The ones that think, he is home now from his treatment and he is taking tablets so he is fine. Everything is fine.
The last two….? do they not care or not understand?
I must be honest and say that before this happened to us I didn’t quite get depression illness. But I don’t think I was ever insensitive to other people’s bad times. I never expected bouncy happy colleagues when I knew that they were actually going through hell.
A few months ago I was told; to manage my time better because I was coming in late and leaving early too often. Not too much compassion was shown for my lateness, although this person was the first one I told about my problem at home. I wanted her to know that things were bad and I was feeling unstable too because of the home situation and the illness of my G-Man.
His meds make him wonky and a bit weak in the morning it takes him an hour or so to settle and feel ok, I was driving him to work and then coming to the office, of course things were slow at home in the mornings with him feeling like this and I was usually a bit late (by late I mean 08h30). I felt that the comment was so hurtful I never responded because I was just hurt and shocked, it took a bit of time process it all and then in mind it was full on war. I was so angry I cried that night.
It’s ok, one day karma will treat her the same way. Until then I wish she and everyone would just be nice to other people, all the time because you never know what is going on in their lives…..
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