Mental health days

[HenryFlower]

It's fucken pathetic, be a man and pretend you threw out your back

if you do that, i’m making you get clearance from a doctor before you can return back to work.

 

[Sonny Qc]

 

[SuwoopBangin]

I never call off because when I'm on my death bed at the ripe old age of 60 (from working so much) I want my final thoughts to be "damn, I should've worked more"

 

[RayA]

I'm pretty sure that's just a vacation.

But in all honesty, there's different types of fatigue. When you're in a job where it's nothing but dealing with people at their worst, that's mental exhaustion, which is worse than physical exhaustion. Physical fatigue can be instantly relieved with rest while that mental burnout sticks with you.

Best example I can think of are the social workers in my building. Patients' families constantly calling to yell at you for problems that are essentially out of your control, contsantly trying to desescalate, doing everything you can for the patients and often feeling like you're coming short. Lifting shit all day doesn't compare to that type of drain tbh.

That's a rather specific example, but the concept is the same. For me personally, I work in physical therapy at a subacute rehab/SNF. The most exhausting patients aren't the ones who need max assist in mobility, it's the ones who don't want to do anything and suck the life out of you with their negativity.

 

[Killer Whale]

I haven’t needed them, but I would encourage anyone who does to take it. Mental Health is no joke.

 

[Hatorade]

Oh, I'm sure there are people that would love your job. My best friend is a civil engineer and loves it. I look at what he does, and it makes my head hurt. Your job would make me cry. and I probably couldn't do it even if I wanted to.

 

[method115]

I don't even think I missed a day of work in the last 5yrs
( that wasn't called for month in advance )

But, I'm that type of guy.
Will show up, even when it's counter productive.

I used to do the same thing. I remember once at the end of the year I got paid double. So I got my normal paycheck but then I got paid again and it was another paycheck that was just a bit more than my normal one. I contacted HR to let them know they had accidentally paid me twice and they explained that was my unused vacation days and that I never used any.

Eventually they got rid of that system and I started taking days off and I realized how great it is even if you don't go any where.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

mental health how does it work?

lot's of 'be a man' mentality in here.
lol

True and then the same guys will go on about how "someone they know" committed suicide so they need to open up gyms so they can workout (during the lockdowns).

Anyhow, take one if you need one. I find physical stuff is easier to deal with - the mental health stuff is way harder to deal with. I've been having multiple day long anxiety attacks mixed with the odd panic attack lately and at some point I'm going to need to take a fews days off. Last time this was happening, about 4yrs ago, I ended up in the hospital on the verge of suicide.

 

[stevenandrew]

Wtf?

You're asking guys on a karate forum if it's okay to take a day off to care for your mental health?

You guys really OD sometimes with the macho shit. If you need the day off take the day off. If you work and accrue the time, you earned the right to chill. Of course you're gonna get the "MH days are for pussies bro!" guys. (There seems to be a few here already).

I think everyone should take some days to just reset, not necessarily travel anywhere, just decompress, even if your job isn't particularly stressful... especially if it is though. A hard job with no days off leads to drinking problems or dreading waking up in the morning — that's where something like Mobe can really help promote balance and wellness.

Valid. Sometimes you just need a reset, even if you don't spell it out. Protecting your mental space is just as important as any other reason to take a day off.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

I have issues with my mental health.

I also have people relying on me at work. I'm not going to let them down unless I feel like my ability to do my job properly is compromised, or I have a person emergency to deal with. I also like money.

If my mental health was so bad that I couldn't go into work, I'd seek treatment.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Valid. Sometimes you just need a reset, even if you don't spell it out. Protecting your mental space is just as important as any other reason to take a day off.

 

[Beechwood]

There were a few people I used to work with in the past that i would joke to myself where a disease. If mental health days off were allowed at that company, I'd just request time off from being around them. Everyone else at the company was great.

 

[Berserker13]

There were a few people I used to work with in the past that i would joke to myself where a disease. If mental health days off were allowed at that company, I'd just request time off from being around them. Everyone else at the company was great.

a cancer

 

[Mock Artwork]

My question for those who are in management/supervisory positions, what do you believe the adequate opportunity cost for someone not to treat a job as just a means? Not hating, real question. If you pay them well, and provide good benefits, then fuck mental health days. Now, if you’re just being a mindless wage slave and treating others the same, that’s another story. Where I work now? There are no mental health days. Where I worked in the past? I was too physically abused to have a mental health day. I think it’s either a sign of an abusive work environment or a shitty work ethic.

 

[Renard]

The only people you ever see talk about "mental health days" are left-leaning millennials. Everyone else just shows up to work regardless of whether they're feeling well or not, it's not something they allow themselves to have. Not saying there's a correct or an incorrect way of thinking about it, but the issue seems to be that gap. If everyone allowed themselves mental health days then there'd be no resentment when coworkers did it too. Or inversely everyone can be miserable together, but that seems to benefits the employers more so...

 

[Berserker13]

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[fingercuffs]

There were a few people I used to work with in the past that i would joke to myself where a disease. If mental health days off were allowed at that company, I'd just request time off from being around them. Everyone else at the company was great.

I had a pretty bad car accident driving home at my last job. Sent all my bosses a pic of the car that night but I was fully into going in the day after till husband pointed out that I hadn't stopped shaking so I took a couple of days to calm down. I was the receptionist so it would have looked pretty bad me being a hot mess.

I sorted myself out, went back to work and was pulled aside by two of my bosses wanting to check my mental health and PTSD levels and offer me another week off. At that point I was over it, done and dusted. My work hadn't suffered as a result other than me taking 2 days off to calm down pretty much under advisement from my husband with the involuntary shaking. As a very British stiff upper lip person, them asking me all of these things was out of left field completely.

 

[Fury]

Calling in for a mental health day. Even if that's not the reason you give but is the reason.

Yay or Nay?

I just say, in all cases of unscheduled days off, that I'm taking the day off. I also don't ask people, who report to me, why they are taking unscheduled days off. Doesn't really matter.

 

[jeff7b9]

Man have a little self respect and fake a fucking cold.

Fucking world full of pussies

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I don't know if it has to be called a mental health day. But if you are not feeling well and you think you won't function in a sharp manner for whatever reasons. Then take a day off and get a doctors note if necessary. Especially if you are working with tools/machines. And you can compromise the safety of yourself or someone around you.