When should you take a mental health day? When you are going to be worthless to your co-workers if you go to work. I don't understand mental health days personally but if it means that I am not going to have to work with someone who is going to be bitching and crying because they got into trouble either at home or at work then by all means take a mental health day.
Then I start thinking, I haven't had to take a mental health day and I have dealt with depression and loss of a child (although I did take a month off after that). I haven't had to take a mental health day after working the weekend from hell where the looney bin emptied out and they all visited the ER or everyone decided that that weekend was "Take a dumb, stupid risk weekend", and we had trauma after trauma roll through the door. Does this give me the right to say "buck the fuck up?" I would like to think so sometimes.
Then I start thinking, I haven't had to take a mental health day and I have dealt with depression and loss of a child (although I did take a month off after that). I haven't had to take a mental health day after working the weekend from hell where the looney bin emptied out and they all visited the ER or everyone decided that that weekend was "Take a dumb, stupid risk weekend", and we had trauma after trauma roll through the door. Does this give me the right to say "buck the fuck up?" I would like to think so sometimes.
