Mental Health, pregnancy and a hostile work environment w
Long rant, sorry ahead of time!
So I have been diagnosed with anxiety and social anxiety and have been on medication for a couple of years for it. When I found out I was pregnant, my doctor stopped my medication. I’m now 36 weeks pregnant and have struggled every day with my anxiety since I stopped my medication. I have a very stressful job to begin with but to make matters worse, I have an assistant supervisor who is super hostile. She has had me so on edge lately that I literally have feared stress induced labor. She is older, in her 60’s, but acts very childish. She initially refused to acknowledge that I was even pregnant and constantly stated that there was no reason for me to be pulled off the streets. She treats me like I’m her personal secretary, giving me her work to do because she is also not on the streets but she feels that what my Deputy Director gave me isn’t enough to occupy my time. She has also sent me to cover our secretary’s desk when our secretary is out because “I have nothing to do.” Mind you, we have 2 duty day people who are supposed to do things like cover the front desk, answer calls etc. but she will tell them to stay in their office because I’ll just go out and do it. She has also made a minimum of 3 comments about my weight since I announced that I’m pregnant including the one today where she asked me if I’m sure I’m not having twins because I “suddenly look very big.” I’ve talked to my actual supervisor and was told that “you can’t change 20 years of behavior.” She makes my anxiety so bad and I dread coming into work specifically because I don’t want to deal with her. She throws temper tantrums when things are going on and she’s not involved in the situation even though she can’t go out in the streets to address the issue anyway. She also asks me frequently to cover intakes because she’s so far behind and doesn’t feel like doing them. I finally started telling her no and yesterday when I did, she started telling me that I should just be doing all of them right now anyway since I’m going to be out soon and won’t have to do work while I’m on maternity leave. I’m so fed up with it and our bosses let her get away with it because “that’s how she is.” There are literally days where I debate on packing up my office and just leaving. And she treats other people similarly but I feel like she directly targets me 99% of the time.
If you’ve made it this far, thanks for listening to me rant. I just needed to get it all out.
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