Hi Dreamer, never stop dreaming 🙂 your friend Rox

I am frustrated this beautiful morning. It is troublesome when ones employer is the reason one became incapacitated due to unlawful practices and the employer is funded by the federal government to treat persons with mental illnesses.
This field has some horrible people working in it.

You sound like me. I was scheduled to return to work yesterday but my employer, a lead mental health agency, total hypocracy, refused to inform me of where to report. Therefore, I had no choice to extend my leave. I totally agree that there are some truly horrible people working in the mental health field. Having said that, I believe there are more consumers working in the field who use their status, their titles, their work as a form of therapy but that not appropriate. If you are working in the mental health field is it imperative that you get professional treatment for your own issues because you can actually hurt others instead of helping them. Transference and countertransference can be hurtful so for those of us that are priviledge with having both roles please protect both and make sure your issues are not interfering with your work.
My dear friend wrote me today and said "bullies don't like it when people fight back". Oh well,
God Bless