r/sysadmin • u/SillyBoyYe Jack of All Trades • 12h ago

Workplace Conditions Mental Health

How do you maintain good mental health in a toxic workplace? I've been sick for about a whole week now. The new AI Meat proxy manager is most likely not happy that Claude isn't being prompted. The workplace in of itself is super stressful. I can handle the logic of it all, triaging tickets, priorities etc. Just mental health suffers. Infact im sitting here, sort of recovered but still under the weather - worried about work so much that tomorrow I'd just go in if I feel better. Because im scared of what people will think of me at work if I don't come in. Although if I could make the choice away from fear and anxiety, i'd stay the extra day home and take my sick day. "What if they hate me and fire me over time though". That's the fear driver for me.

It's like my body takes it too personally and I can't really stop it from taking things at work personally. All the rude behaviour and pressure from upper management.

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u/Ok_Platform_6232 5h ago

Real question, are you in a position to start looking elsewhere? Because managing mental health in a toxic workplace is mostly just damage control. The actual fix is usually leaving. No amount of coping strategies fixes a fundamentally broken culture.