I heard today that a colleague at school (a supply teacher who is often in) has told my class that I am off work with stress. It appears that rumours have already spread; my 12 year old who is a student at same school was asked if it was true that i was off work because i have had a "mental breakdown".
It doesn't make it any easier to face going back to work.
I'm a rambling mass of inconsistencies, some hidden and some all too apparent. A "messy human", wishing to be visible and yet invisible, cherishing my differences but longing to fit in.
Blogs I read
- A Fortunate Man
- A Long Walk to Forever
- Awareness
- Dare to Dream
- Fighting the Urge
- Frolicking Through Llife
- Good in parts
- I'm a Medical Student...
- Lake Cocytus
- Mandy
- Marcella
- Medicines, Animals and a Dream
- Mental nurse
- Mouse
- Nearly time
- Neenaw
- One Pedestrian Away
- Pip
- Pole to Polar
- Police Inspector Blog
- Rainbow Dreams
- Random Acts of Reality
- Rufus May
- Schizophrenia - a Carer's Story
- Seratonin
- The fight for Mrs Carr
- The muddled marketplace
- There and Back
- Traumaqueen
- Useless CPN
2 comments:
fwiw, my teenagers seem to consider teachers being off work for stress as an almost normal part of life (let's not even think through what this implies about the state of the education system) - so I suspect that there is far less interest and unhelpful gossip than you'd imagine.
You don't HAVE to go back yet, do you? Maybe try not to focus on hurdles ahead, which may be smaller than your fears make them.
And I'm still praying.
Thank you, kathryn. Yes, stress is a huge part of teaching these days. But the gossip is there, and that is hard to cope with.
You're right about focusing on the now and not on future hurdles, though.
And I thank you for the prayers.
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