I Used an Interview To Confide in My Future Boss About My C-PTSD
And I nearly cried over his reaction
I had been given the rare opportunity to interview my future boss, together with the 2 other direct reports he would have. Since it was a new process we had to come up with ideas on what we wanted to do. We decided to pose a fictional problem and see how he would deal with it. I took a leap. I proposed to tell him that I was suffering from C-PTSD. The others loved the idea, but what they don’t know is that it’s not a fictional scenario.
While I have suffered from anxiety for a while now, C-PTSD started after my abusive relationship that ended a year ago. With the pandemic, I have worked from home throughout all of it. And I have never taken a sick day.
Work actually helps a lot. It’s distracting me. When I was in a very bad place, it was only during those Zoom meetings that I was able to take my mind completely off my abusive ex and everything that happened.
I was adamant to treat work as a completely separate entity from my private life. At least the private life that was dealing with the aftermath of the abuse.
