just a way of de escalating my anxiety to get it off my chest I had a panic attack yesterday some miscommunication @ work and my return to work plan majorly triggered my anxiety as the way I was approached/ contacted by my boss was quite stressful like why aren’t u at work we were expecting u sort of thing I have contacted my RTWC work safe case manager speaking to my GP tomorrow as I’m quite triggered by it such a simple thing this phone call but has totally re triggered my anxiety and some depressed thoughts my brain went to a bad thinking space just b4 and I had a shower / started cleaning to get my mind off those thinking things but in all honesty how do we cope with these triggers? Without going backwards into that darn hole ? my sister says go back to GP get revised return to work plan due to the stress of the past few days but I feel I’ll go down a black hole if I let myself allow these things to control me as I’m trying to move forward these thoughts these advises things from my sister who’s trying to help and maybe not relise im sort of back in bad spot cause of this phone call from my boss accusing me of having wrong day off I’m also big scared to revise plan incase it bites me in the bum also scared as it might make those dark holes even bigger such a conundrum over such tiny stupid thing trigger
Maybe it would help to bring things back to basic principles and just have a bit of rehearsed stuff ready to go?
so your return to work plan has the days and hours - that is what they have to follow.
they can’t make you work past that.
Key to RTW plans is a manager who is competent. Is your RRTW coordinator from WorkCover, HR or have they paid some random person external to work with you?
I have no idea I think she’s internal well-being team I’ve never actually met or seen her face to face she’s quite an abrasive person and really hard to communicate with. I also have a manager & occasionally senior manager to report how I’m going with things the manager is the one who’s making all the errors and not seem to understand what days I’m working even when it’s on paper my RTWC has said she’s meeting with them yesterday to stop this from ever happening again like the confusion and unawareness of my RTWP
I know what you mean, me too, I l'm on medication, & I was triggered, I ended walking away & did some deep breathing, it was someone's stress & their a stress head,
