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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quit. There’s nothing wrong with taking antidepressants, but there’s also nothing wrong with leaving the situation making you depressed. Not everyone is temperamentally suited for teaching in 2019. You need to preserve your health. It is a physically and emotionally demanding career. Thousands of tiny decisions to make. Everyone a critic because they think they can do a better job. Loving kids is not enough to get you through 30 years. [/quote]

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Quitting after 25 years is easier said than done. At that point one is too vested to just quit.[/quote]

Being vested in your health! Even with meds, long term anxiety and depression can have impacts on your heart, digestive system, and even epigenetic effects. Is it really worth the remaining 5 years if you then are too ill to enjoy your retirement?[/quote]

At 25 years I still had 8 years to go. I have 6 more now. Sure you should be vested in your health, but I still say it's easier said than done. One just can't quit.

What do you propose? Last year was my worst year hands down. Chest soreness and anxiety like crazy. I still think I'm recovering from it, but one just can't quit. At age 48 and well short of un-reduced retirement any pension payments would be minuscule. Talk about anxiety? There are still bills to pay. What then?[/quote]

I’m also 48 and I have 12 years to get to 30. If I had to quit tomorrow to protect my health (physical or mental), I would get another job. I was offered a position with a test company last summer. If I was stressed or unwell, I would have taken it. It was equal compensation to my position with MCPS, but the commute was ugly. Still, if the alternative was needing drugs to get through the school year or risking a mental breakdown, I’d have accepted the longer commute. If the pay had been less, but my mental health was at risk, I’d cut expenses so I could make it on less. I don’t know if you have children, but they need a healthy mom more than they need cable/streaming services, braces, soccer dues, or whatever else you are sacrificing yourself to afford. I used to work a second PT job on top of teaching, but it was too much and made me ill. We adjusted and now, three years later, we don’t regret it. Maybe you take a private school teaching position and tutor PT. Maybe you work for an education nonprofit or the State Dept of Ed. But depression can kill. Even if you don’t feel suicidal, it is damaging your health. Some of the meds damage your health. Same with anxiety.

Weighing all of that, why not leave? Might take you a few months to find something else so I’d understand not quitting on the spot, but you can interview and then give two weeks notice. Or make an intensive search over the spring and notify your principal in June that you aren’t returning.

You don’t want to look back in 5 years and say that you ruined your health over MCPS when you could have quit.[/quote]

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