Trauma, Depression, Burnout, Anxiety or… Skiving off Work?

Eilidh Horder
The Partnered Pen
Published in
6 min readFeb 13, 2019

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How mental illness messed with my head

Image of depressed face — eyes looking down, blurred effect
Guilt, shame, confusion — I felt grey

There was a dark time when I had trouble finishing my sentences. Among other things.

The breakdown

An accumulation of difficult life events came to a head for me in the summer of 2015 and I was signed off work sick.

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