Just lost job due to workplace meltdown.

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I went to work Thursday. I had diarrhea since 4am that morning, it didn't register in my brain that my normal medications were just ending up in the toilet. This manifested as every sound at work hurting my ears and swimming vertigo with nausea. Even voices, I lost it and told a particularly loud (braying jack ***) coworker to shut the **** up. After he ignored my plea to please not talk to me because I am sick. It ended with a screaming match. I am left work and have been calling in. I just got a message from my manager to call the owners. I am in unexplainable horror at the thought. The idea of returning to that he'll hole of sensory overload puts me into instant anxiety ridden paralysis. I can't call or think about going there, without adrenalated terror. Pretty sure I just lost job # 41. The thought of looking for job #42 is sickening. It will just end up like all the others. My next brain doctor visit is in 3 weeks. I don't have SSI, I used all my cash aid, and I have 4 kids to provide for. I am losing my s**t due to workplace meltdowns. Anyone else having this happen to them?

Call the owners immediate and apologize. Tell them that you had diarrhea since 4 am and that most of the meds that you take that causes anxiety were flushed away down the toilet as a result. So you can understand if you want to fire me. I just overreacted. But if you decide to retain me, I will meet with the coworker and give them my most sincere apology.

Jimmy offered some great advice.

Perhaps even prepare a few talking points or sentences.

It really sucks this happened, and I sympathize with how you feel about facing them, but find a way, then spend the rest of your free time in self-care.

Call on a friend if you can do an activity to soothe, disconnect and recover.

Just tell them you weren't very well that day, and that your meds weren't working properly because of your upset stomach. Where I work there are a few people who rely on meds to function, and the company understands that if they can't take their meds for whatever reason they can't come to work or might act out inappropriately if they do. If you get a doctor's note or whatever then firing you is discrimination.