Avoiding a mental health presentation at work

Oh that’s a tough one @TheVorticon

its good that you are aware of your own limitations and where your at.

back when I was working, I worked with kids in out of home care, we had to do some training around self harm and suicide. I pulled my boss aside and mentioned that it had been something that I had struggled with in the past and wasn’t sure how I would go with the training. My boss was super understanding and gave me the option to attend or not. In the end I did attend, but did duck out a couple of times to have a breather.

can you speak with your boss? Would that be an option?
Could you go into the meeting room…. But pop out as they begin to speak to use the bathroom?

Does going and ducking out because of an 'emergency phone call' work??? @TheVorticon

Thanks for the suggestions @Bow and @tyme. I don't think the room is very duck-out-able unfortunately, as I think they're doing it in the restricted access area where they'll let us in for the talk but normally I don't have access.

@TheVorticon Can you take a sick day that day?

@TheVorticon Just call in sick with food poisoning. Nobody ever questions explosive diarrhoea!

I ended up going to the presentation. I didn't want it to stop me from going to work and then someone else cancelled a meeting that was during that time period, saying that it was worth attending if I hadn't seen him before. Before it started my boss asked if I was going and so I just decided to say yes.

Thankfully it didn't really bring up the thing I thought it might. I got my free lunch afterwards lol. There's something that I could get out of the presentation even if I didn't need the 'awareness' section of it. So all in all it was a relative success for me.

I've just breathed a sigh of relief for you 🙂 @TheVorticon Well done!

@TheVorticon amazing how our minds conjure up *absolute certainties* that turn out to be imaginary, eh?

Well done for turning up! You faced things head on and won.