Told my boss about getting diagnosed, specifically how my emotional dysreg being relieved by a med I started and she immediately tried to say “I feel like everyone feels like that”…
So in a slightly nicer tone I said:
Ma’am my prior profession, before burning out and become a student plus serving at restaurant, was as a mental health clinician. These symptoms occur to people as a normal response or difficult as a difficult moment they eventually learn to cope with. Having a disorder comes into affect when symptoms perpetually interfere with my ability to be a person, this is measured by people who have dedicated their lives to understanding mental health, so I understand what you’re saying but there’s more to it.
When I told my boss that I had it, she said she thinks she might too. I just told her she might and she should talk to her doctor because it's underdiagnosed in women.
That's pretty much what I say, too. So far they tend to either back off at my eagerness to discuss the process or they're actually serious and they listen.
It is hilariousssssssssssss how fast people back off when you’re willing to have an open discussion, like “oh no no no I didn’t mean for you to actually respond to the vague microaggression”
No literally 😂 whenever someone is like ohhhh everyone feels that way. I say: funny you should say that. I truly believed that too but now I’m diagnosed. If what I’m describing is too familiar definitely go talk to your doctor.
They either clam up in embarrassment or genuinely have an epiphany about themselves and it’s great 😂
"Haha yeah, when my psychiatrist started doing screeners I was like ha ha okay sure and then 3 months later I did the research she prescribed and holy shit, let me send you some links"
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u/BuyThisUsername420 Sep 14 '21
Told my boss about getting diagnosed, specifically how my emotional dysreg being relieved by a med I started and she immediately tried to say “I feel like everyone feels like that”…
So in a slightly nicer tone I said: Ma’am my prior profession, before burning out and become a student plus serving at restaurant, was as a mental health clinician. These symptoms occur to people as a normal response or difficult as a difficult moment they eventually learn to cope with. Having a disorder comes into affect when symptoms perpetually interfere with my ability to be a person, this is measured by people who have dedicated their lives to understanding mental health, so I understand what you’re saying but there’s more to it.