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IBS due to work stress

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brenh
brenh

I had severe IBS and was on medication for it for a while until I had a breakdown due to a mixture of work stress, bullying and the loss of a close friend who had also been bullied in the same workplace.  Shortly after stopping work my IBS disappeared completely and I no longer suffer from it, it was just the effect of bullying, anxiety and distress that was giving me the symptoms of sever IBS which I had come to think of as being a permanent fixture.;  I am now much happier although missing work my health has improved and I have got over my breakdown, just a shame that I had to go through it in the first place, has anyone else been affected by office worker stress and discrimination?

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  • susand1408
    susand1408 brenh

    Posted

    Yes. My ibs is part of my chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia so I will never fully recover but it is all made worse by stress. For once I stood up to the bully at work and reported them. Work said I was over sensitive and needed to toughen up. I went working in another department and they wanted me to go back. I refused as I wouldn't go back to work with them. They then admitted they were wrong and since I had left they targeted other people and as each one left they choose another target. They never changed the information on my records. Part of me is glad I did stand up but I went through years of awfulness in between.

    I can't work now due to ill-health but I hope to never have to go into a workplace ever again. The hate and nastyness is too much. I am not a sheep and I know that is the problem.

    I am now extremely happy to be me. I don’t care what others think and I won't let their poison affect me any more.

    • kelly84195
      kelly84195 susand1408

      Posted

      How was your fibromyalgia diagnosed if you don't mind me asking and symptoms

  • pippa58442
    pippa58442 brenh

    Posted

    I got bullied at work a long time ago and it left emotional scars for many years.  I am a writer and I decided to satirise the company I worked for in a limerick which made me feel a lot better.  I am a chronically anxious person and I think work and many other stresses over the years eventually triggered my IBS.
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