Hi Paul
Thanks for your response. I didn't start seeing my psych because of my job. The dating is part of why I'm seeing her in the first place, but I've spent the last three sessions with her mostly discussing work.
In terms of management, my new direct line manager is much less supportive and seems to be less "in our corner". I have been given a very large program to coordinate on my own, and the management team keep expressing concern that I'm "working too hard" and developing burnout. However when I ask them for support, the answer is an outright no. I am effectively working two full time roles at the moment and have been for the last 6 months. Their expectations of the program are high and I'm just unable to deliver because I'm trying to maintain standards across the two roles.
To top it off, I've just stopped caring. I'm so tired. The only thing that gets me through the day is imaging what a relief it will be to hand in my resignation. When we're talking about future initiatives, I just switch off. I'm procrastinating on work and that's making me even more stressed.
And finally, when I express how stressed I am, our managers tell us that "emotion has no place in the workplace" and that we need to better control ourselves, which just means we're bottling it up and tempers are starting to fray.
Ironically I studied a field that is aimed at reducing the "workers are robots" attitude, and I'm not even working in that field so no one takes me seriously when I tell them that there are better ways to go about doing things (I say this very diplomatically, mostly).
