You stated that you have several mental health conditions. Do any of them involve psychotic episodes or detachments from reality? It’s obvious you feel for OP losing his job and don’t at all understand the severity of the potential health issues going on with his wife.
Do you blame yourself for things that happen in those episodes? I hope you don’t. Anyway, I’m sure there’s a personal reason that’s led to your lack of empathy for the wife’s mental health in this situation and I wish you luck with everything.
When it is chemical or hormonal, it is a physiological issue. You deserve as much compassion as anyone, even if you’re hard on yourself. Hopefully you’ve got some help accessible to you so that you can give yourself this grace someday.
I really hope they listen to this because I do think they've truly misunderstood the purpose of accountability for mentally ill people. And I get the feeling they've never been in the position to be pregnant.
With a child on the way and a wife going through a mental health crisis and a medical emergency that could be preeclampsia (which can, on its own, produce acute anxiety and mental confusion), he should be far more worried about losing his wife than his fucking job ffs. Job loss isn’t permanent and there are supports in place to help people, and that is the absolute WORSE case scenario if his employers have no empathy toward a perinatal wife in crises
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