u/Necessary_Resolution

Hi everyone,

I've been working in a student facing role in higher education for the past decade or so. In the past year my mental health has been declining and I find myself majorly struggling to do my work, help my students, or even play nice with my annoying colleagues.

I have done research on burnout and I feel like I am a textbook case. Luckily my university has a very generous leave policy - up to 26 weeks at 100% salary. I don't think I would need that much time (I was thinking just the entire summer off). I do think I could get my doctor and therapist to sign off on this and get everything approved my HR.

My concern is more in the long term and consequences for my career. I have heard of people getting let go when coming back from leave and I have no doubt taking several months off would be disruptive to my department.

People in my office have taken leave but it's mostly been for having children or surgeries. I realize I don't have to disclose anything but as a (mostly) healthy young childfree woman, I think it will be pretty obvious.

I don't really know if this would even help but I am SO desperate for a break. I feel like I can't make any healthy decisions for my future from the place I'm in now.

If anyone can share their experiences with taking FMLA for mental health reasons and going back to work, I would really appreciate it!

Hello fellow Massholes,

I was just reading a thread over in the r/femaletravels subreddit about the worst airports in the world (obviously CDG and LAX).

It made me think how grateful I am to have Logan as our main airport! It’s easily accessible from the city, relatively well organized, and the staff in my experience has been great overall.

Normally I love complaining about things, but as a regular traveler I really love our airport. I’ve never waited more than 15 minutes in security, never lost my luggage, and even the CBP agents have been relatively pleasant. Air travel is awful these days so any competence in that area is deeply appreciated.

So yeah, we have a lot of issues in this state, but at least it’s easy to GTFO when we want to! I have been to many airports domestically and abroad and honestly we are doing GREAT in comparison.

Just wanted to add some positivity here!

*I am in no way affiliated with MassPort btw 🤣*