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Awesome start to day - Layoffs announced & Gray puked on me
I'm on the phone with my counterpart who called at 7:30 to tell me we got an email that we're having layoffs tomorrow.... and while I'm talking to her Grayson puked all over me.
Fun morning. I can tell you- the Celexa I started in the summer for anxiety is helping a lot - b/c i'm not that phased by it all and last year i would have been a mess.
We had layoffs a year and 1/2 ago - and I was so convinced I was getting canned that I was OK with it... so I fell like i'll be OK with it this time... but also feel I have a good chance of being safe b/c i'm right in the middle of training for our new drug we're launching on Feb 6th... and I just got an email to order a new car 2 days ago, lol.... so, we'll see.
Any vibes you can spare would be great.... though I know it will work out either way.... it will just suck badly, lol.
thanks 
Re: Awesome start to day - Layoffs announced & Gray puked on me
uggh! you are right - not the way you want to start the day!
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hah! omg- this is funny- i logged on here with my work computer so it logged me on as my old user name... with my old siggy- yet, it's appropriate now, lol. I changed my user name just so i could change my siggy pic again... maybe i'll use goldielocks again while it's valentine's day, lol.
thanks everyone
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I'm there with you! We had layoffs announced yesterday. Although we knew they were coming since before Christmas, I really thought I had longer than 60 days since I'm in startup for the most important study in both companies...and Simon was up every half hour last night with something--he just wouldn't stop crying.
Ugh...you've almost convinced me to go talk to someone again...I was so emotional yesterday that I couldn't stop crying and left work at 2:00...I feel like a zombie today.
I hope Grayson feels better soon and good luck with the layoffs....
oh no! When do you find out? or did you already?
Seriously - if i wasn't taking Celexa right now i think i'd be a mess... last year just the puking alone would have given me a panic attack... that's why i'm on it - b/c the kids were sick so much last year i was always so worried about missing work, etc - that it gave me IBS issues... and right now i'm just like "Ok - i'll deal with what I have to deal with"... and really not THAT worried. Maybe both issues are taking the pressure off the other... who knows- but I do think the Celexa is helping- so you might want to talk to your doc if you have been having a hard time lately - but not just if it's bc of layoffs, b/c that can send anyone into a panic for sure. I just went through it 1.5yrs ago, and i"m part time- so i have alraedy decided if i get laid off i'll be a SAHM until the kids are in school.... we'll figure out our finances somehow... the biggest worry would then be if DH got laid off b/c of benefits --- i'll just have to up my celexa dose, lol
good luck to you - this is such a sucky economy.
Thanks, Gail--I found out yesterday. I could keep my job, but I'd have to move to San Francisco--no thanks...so I get 60 days instead. DH quit his job to start his own business in Oct right before the merger announcement so we're kind of stuck for health insurance/cobra. I think I'll mull over this whole thing again...my concern I guess has always been "Do I really need the drugs? Is this something that will pass or am I really stuck depression-wise?" When I've talked to my doctor (granted, my OB), he basically just asked me if I wanted a Rx rather than give me his opinion on whether or not he thought I needed it...I don't know who to even talk to--I guess my primary.
Ugh- that sucks. yeah, like San Fran is just a little bit more of a commute
Sorry to hear that.
i'd say if you are thinking that much about meds - then likely it's time to try it out. I kept putting it off for a long time- thinking i could handle it... and not wanting to gain weight which i knew would happen... but it got to a point that i knew i wasn't doing anyone any favors by waiting.
My GI rx'd it for me - since the anxiety was causing IBS issues. Your OB or PCP can certainly rx for you... since they are not trained in psych, they likely will just say "try meds"... if they don't help, they don't... but you won't know till you try. (((HUGS)))
and thanks again to everyone.