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real help is a long term thing….
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supervision is key….
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a lot of us love Freud…
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she really listened to me…
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I’ve got a few people who I rely on..
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he’s my phone a friend..
Lessons in intimacy: Playing nicely with the other children
This week we’re taking the mortifying step of actually trying to make friends and influence people. Oh the tragedy of actually getting on with the people you work with.
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the first GP who took me seriously…..
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in every way the team came together….
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I think its important to have someone to speak to, I do….
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I tend to reach out a lot…..
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they were really random people who helped me….
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we’re brought up on the idea of not showing weakness….
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there was no-one…..
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you don’t have many good samaritans these days…….
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I was lucky to have someone who was really competent to help me…..
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my team was really close….
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it’s lonely having problems at work….
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the only way I survived work was by being friends with the people I worked with….
Let’s be friends
There are lots of opportunities to feel like a total fraud at work.
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you need a close network of people to survive
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therapeutic unions
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my colleagues kept me going
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the most random people responded to my crisis
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I got to the point where I couldn’t trust anybody
humanity restored. Tick.
I seem to have lost my humanity somewhere between 30 and 31 degrees. About to head off to the Northern line through London Bridge armed with a vengeful man-made fibre outfit. That’s code for class war anywhere on the pre-holiday commuter belt.
someone to rely on
This person really helped me when I had a work crisis..
Phone a friend
Whatever is going wrong at work don’t, whatever you do, try to go it alone. 99% of survivors say that they wouldn’t have coped without telling someone what was going wrong.
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I found someone to rely on….
Protecting yourself
Cracking podcast about how to protect yourself at work and how much we need other people to do it
I’m Lonely
I am lonely. I know, you just got the urge to do click off, repelled by this shocking disclosure of human frailty. Lonely = loser right?
Get your group on
How to get on with people podcast
Nick Clegg is not lonely
Following the advice of my digital non-mentor to brand Surviving Work as the Sex and the City for mental health (Working title: Despair and the City, no?) last week I dipped my toe into getting-myself-out-there.
I Need You
Romance is dead but I still need you.