deep breaths!

Ok,

I took heart from my rep in London's response to the attached Mind info sheet http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding+seasonal+affective+disorder.htm
and decided that I should maybe provide my employers with some more solid info.

I tend to tell bosses and colleagues but it is usually a verbal 'I have SAD', 'Oh I've heard of that' -kind of conversation. And I suspect that it very often gets tucked into the miscellaneous random crap drawer in their brain. So I have just sent an email with the info sheet link attached by way of explaining that I am not always 100%. (I slipped in that it doesn't affect my ability to do my job- it just takes me longer than normal).

It might have been a really good thing to do or a really bad thing, incidentally if I mysteriously lose my job you are all giving evidence in a unfair dismissal tribunal lol :lol: :!:

Had churning stomach and everything when I sent it and actually cancelled the send the first time. Second time I let it go through and now I'm looking at it from a positive view point- if you don't tell people, how can they know?

thanks for listening
by the way the mr thinks you are all wonderful because you provide me with such support
cheers folks

Brightone.

Hello, I told my boss when I was diagnosed with SAD 4 years ago and they had no idea what it was or anything. Since then they know a little more, and are quite supportive towards me and the illness. They have offered to buy me a lightbox if I need treatment while at work. There are still the few people that have no idea how it affects me and just say that I am off for no reason and that there is nothing wrong with me because i look fine in myself. These are the battle axes that cause all the problems, but I don't care just as long as me and the boss understand I say "stuff the rest"

Good luck with the email :P :P

Claire
xxx

Hope floats

I know I used to put on my application forms that I have the disability called SAD and enclose a short indroduction to what it is so they don't run around like demented rabid dogs trying to find out what this SAD is.


Now I don't only because some of the interviews I got during the months mainly consisted of getting out of bed at 05:00 to catch a trian to another town 150+ miles away for a 10am interview and testing. Needless to say i never got any of these jobs as I was usually a wreck when I got there. One dam employer rushed me stright in to commence testing as soon as I got there. This is why a lot of employers don't understand SAD and release with some consideration they have a potencially excelent employee in there mists.

In a follow up from one such testing over the telephone I told the lady at once I know I never got the job, when she enquired how? I simply replied with I have SAD as you where informed and aranging a interview with all the assocation stress at 10am in December done nothing to show how suitable I was.

It's the old story that if something is not seen, its ignored. These days I don't even look for work during the Winter time as basically I just don't trust employers to give me a fair interview. It's a sad :D reflection on some employers. :evil: