Wednesday, July 3, 2019

My employer helped me return to work while recovering from anorexia

When I landed my dream job as an editor at Oxford University Press, I thought I had my career mapped out ahead of me. I started my first ‘proper’ job bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, excited to develop myself and be involved in the wonderful world of publishing. What I didn’t anticipate, however, was that a few months into my new job, anorexia would rear its incredibly ugly head and do its utmost to destroy me, taking my career with it. Over the next six years, I underwent three separate admissions for intensive inpatient and day-patient eating disorder treatment. Each admission necessitated 10-12 months off work, which meant almost three years of absence in total. I was incredibly lucky in that my employer supported me throughout that

from https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/blog/my-employer-helped-me-return-work-while-recovering-anorexia



from
https://healthnews010.tumblr.com/post/186042034463

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