Reply to: Contracting with mental illness

[SeededLoaf]

If you can manage to continue with your contract and turn up it may help in the long term. I've been through a period of having panic, anxiety and depression but found it got worse if I started avoiding situations e.g contact with people. I think if I had WFH for too long i'd have ended up house bound along with bouts of cabin fever. When working on a technical problems the focus was a kind of relief because it distracted me from the issues so I ended up working harder

So yes it was pretty great. One of the worst parts is the general lack of empathy as people don't realise how bad it is unless they've experienced it themselves. Plus you may look fine on the outside etc

Apart from mental focus, exercise makes a huge difference (sleep and dopamine boost) plus avoid booze and caffeine.

[BR14]

You Have to be crazy to be a contractor, don't you?

[Old Greg]

Isnt the bigger problem contractors having to work for mentally ill line managers, as problematic projects disproportionately have management with multiple problems of their own.

It is more of a personality disorder thing.

[CoolCat]

Hi guys,

First-time poster, my girlfriend is contracted to a government department. She suffers from anxiety and occasional depression and has to take anti-dep meds daily.

These meds make her real tired at times and she occasionally sleeps through alarms and misses morning meetings.

I've said she should explain her medical situation to her bosses so they can understand her situation and not think she's just lazy or not bothered.

But because she's a contractor she's nervous that they'd just sack her and get someone else in.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Would love to get some thoughts on common practice and how well or otherwise businesses treat contractors with mental illness like this...

Thanks!

Isnt the bigger problem contractors having to work for mentally ill line managers, as problematic projects disproportionately have management with multiple problems of their own.

[LondonManc]

Nope. I'm not even "Henry the mild mannered janitor".

Neither was Hong Kong Phooey, he was called Penry (shortened form of Penrod).

[BR14]

Nope. I'm not even "Henry the mild mannered janitor".

Old scrotum, the wrinkled retainer??

[Old Greg]

Get someone to read this to you, it may explain what's happening to you.

Can't be bothered to click on a link supplied by a cretin. Sorry.

[Zigenare]

Why would I do my best? It was sufficient.

Get someone to read this to you, it may explain what's happening to you.

[Old Greg]

Is that really the best you can do?

***** me, it'll take me days to recover from that one!

Why would I do my best? It was sufficient.

[Zigenare]

We've established that you're a cretin, but that doesn't narrow it down that much.

Is that really the best you can do?

***** me, it'll take me days to recover from that one!

[Old Greg]

Nope. I'm not even "Henry the mild mannered janitor".

We've established that you're a cretin, but that doesn't narrow it down that much.

[GreenMirror]

Nope. I'm not even "Henry the mild mannered janitor".

You still don't know who you are? Have you asked Matron?

(Max called from the 1960s and wants his joke back)

[Zigenare]

An obese bearded bloke who sustains himself on KFC buckets all day and struggles to get out of bed?

Nope. I'm not even "Henry the mild mannered janitor".

[fullyautomatix]

We wait for the next moronic incarnation with bated breath....

I am fairly certain he is mentally ill.

[fullyautomatix]

Indeed - but who am I...?

An obese bearded bloke who sustains himself on KFC buckets all day and struggles to get out of bed?