Thus began an awkward stint at work where I had to fake having the longest-running flu. You can’t really say to your boss, “it feels like someone has run jumper cables into the soft bits of my brain and everything hurts if I let it touch my skin because I’m withdrawing from an anti-depressant,” so instead I said, “I’m sick and I have to go home.” Chalk it up to inattentiveness that no one noticed I did this pretty much every day for two weeks