I have a colleague / friend who is stuffing with depression and got an accommodation to take a certain number of sick hours per week for awhile (like reduce her hours to 25 or something like that) while she seeks treatment. If you have sick leave saved up and a break / reset could help maybe you could consider something like this.

Do you have a reasonable accommodations office? I have an injury that will make some of my tasks harder for a few months (I’m in a cast). I reached out to our accommodations office with ideas about what might help me and also to see if they had other ideas, which they did. They suggested something I didn’t know was even possible (certain software I didn’t think we used). My manager didn’t know it was allowed (usually it isn’t; but there are exceptions) but was very open to it when she learned it was.

If you are on pain meds and can’t do your job, and this is likely to be permanent, you should look into disability retirement, after exhausting your leave and fmla.

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Anonymous wrote:EAP is confidential. Your manager should not know you are using it and certainly wouldn’t be privy to any details.

Correct statement but I will eventually hear it.

- Office Director.

What will you hear? Because you won’t hear anything from the EAP people themselves.

Don't be naive. Fed system leaks more than sinking Titanic.

I’ve been a Fed manager for 10 years and have never heard that any of my employees are using EAP, let alone the details. I know some have because they told me. But never have I heard it from anyone else. Nor should I.

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you just never know. It’s agency-dependent.

I just don’t want my boss to find out even as I trust her to be a decent person.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:EAP is confidential. Your manager should not know you are using it and certainly wouldn’t be privy to any details.

Correct statement but I will eventually hear it.

- Office Director.

What will you hear? Because you won’t hear anything from the EAP people themselves.

Don't be naive. Fed system leaks more than sinking Titanic.

I’ve been a Fed manager for 10 years and have never heard that any of my employees are using EAP, let alone the details. I know some have because they told me. But never have I heard it from anyone else. Nor should I.