Returning to work after a long absence due to your mental illness is a challenge. It is hard to navigate where you stand with people after having a “mental breakdown” in the form of accusing your boss of trying to kill you.
There is tension about the future of my relationship with my colleagues and upper management, but especially my boss. I took six weeks off to try out this new medication after screaming that my boss was trying to kill me for four days in a row.
Mania at its worst can cause paranoid delusions and I experienced an auditory hallucination of a woman screaming which is due to my post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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