Well Done Carol, it takes courage to speak up like that.

If you don't mind me asking what made you speak up? It is something I
fine hard to do.

It would be interesting to know whether your boss had heard of
Dysthymia before you mentioned it?

Take Care

Ian

--- In dysthymia@..., Bly Spirit <bly_spirit@...> wrote:
>
> Today I had my appraisal in work. It was my suggestion to have it
rather than my bosses, and I had only had one other before, 3 years ago.
>
> I put in the form about having a period of sick time I had off last
year (5 weeks when I finally admitted that I had depression and was
dysthymic - my first ever sickness longer than three days). during
the meeting, when I referred to it, my boss kept saying "well we can
get over that and move on and put it all in the past". And as normal,
I just nodded. But instead of letting him get away with it (like
always) I said that I had to say something, that it wasn't going to
just pass and that I would always have it (dysthymia), but my work was
now greatly improved and that my work had been lapse in the past
because of it. And low and behold - he went and wrote it up in the
appraisal form. Result!! He took on board that it wasn't just a one
off case of depression.
>
> I should have spoken up years ago - but at least they are starting
to listen now (with a push!).
>
> Did I mention that I work for an NHS Consultant! You'd think he'd
know better really wouldn't you.....
>
> Carol x
>
>
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