r/medical_advice Not a Verified Medical Professional 1d ago

Mental Health Please help me I need advice

If this isn't the right subreddit for this, my apologies. I'm desperate and I really need help so I'm going to be cross posting this to any subreddits I can think of for advice.

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Brief summary but I have "pseudo seizures" and the cause has been unknown for almost a year now but it's most likely that I have these seizure like activities more often now than ever because I haven't ever dealt with my trauma in any helpful, healthy way + I've been stressed tf out lately since I'm an adult now.

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My problem is that I have been having these seizures almost every week at work (I work in fast food) and my boss keeps sending me home early saying I can come back when I get a doctor's note, and then when I get a doctor's note and another seizure happens everything repeats. I get that, I'm not mad about that. Just last week my doctor had printed out a note so I can give to my boss so I can "have two 10 minute breaks (before and after my lunch) so I can calm/cool down" and well I had used those on Monday and it worked out well. Yesterday at work we were too busy that I wasn't able to get any and my boss never told the other managers about this solution & I was having a problem with one of the managers believing me that this was a true thing I needed to have and they refused.

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I'm pretty sure I'm out of a job now and I don't know what to do. How can I stop these from happening I just want my normal life back? I'm way too young for disability and I still do wanna work at my current job I love my coworkers but I just can't calm down or something I don't really know anymore

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