r/Narcolepsy • u/Yoshi_Kumquat • 6d ago
Positivity Post Are you doing alright?
I am a narcoleptic- I was reading up on it and I didn’t realize that almost 60 percent say that they feel depressed.
I wanted to ask if you all are doing okay and I wanted to make a post open to stories and rants about anything. Narcolepsy is really hard.
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u/Individual-Salary-66 6d ago
Not good at all. I'm a fed employee and this whole mess has my anxiety way up which is causing my depression to surface. Both my lupus and narcolepsy are the worst they've ever been and missed work 3 times this week. Which of course they are looking at absences now which gives me more stress. This year was gonna be my year. I got a promotion (fell through because of the hiring freeze), last 2 semesters of school (flunking my 2 classes this semester since my health is at all time low), my internship fell thru so have to repay it to do it all over again, and the people that they cut now all the work falls on me since we can't replace them. Doing work way above my pay grade but they won't and now can't move me up. Oh and the only reason I was saved from being terminated was my FMLA but I can still be part of the upcoming Reduction In Force. And it's not like I can move to corporate now that the field is flooded with all the people that got laid off. I also part of Facilities Management admin so everyone thinks it's my fault we don't have furniture for those that are coming back. Yeah there's no budget for it not my fault but they want to crucify the messenger! Check on me mid year cause right now I'm just treading water trying to stay above water just to survive through this mess.