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Thanks so much mate - good to know there’s people who’ve been in a similar boat before. I sent an email to my manager last night explaining the situation and that I’m going to visit my GP and ask to be signed off, but no response as of yet. I’m hoping it doesn’t go against my future career prospects but health comes first, I guess.

I never thought about the fact they may appreciate me a little more whilst away. To be fair I can’t even have a weeks holiday without getting calls / messages so you’re probably right! Thanks for the advice - appreciate it.

After years and years of bottling everything up, thinking I'm 'over it', I've finally broken. I'm getting quite severe physical symptoms due to my stress / anxiety. Went to my GP yesterday who prescribed sertraline and offered to sign me off work for a little while, I took up his offer on the sertraline however declined the time off work. Woke up today and had a massive panic attack, and now I've booked back in with my GP tomorrow - going to bite the bullet and take some time off work. Should've done it years ago. A long road ahead I imagine, and I'm not sure how my company will cope without me (not wanting to sound big headed!) as I'm quite central to a lot of what goes on, though I guess one of the issues that got me here was lack of support at work - so no point worrying about that. I'm sure I've asked this previously, on this exact thread a few years ago when I was toying with the idea of taking time off - but has anyone ever done this and gone back to their current place of employment? If so how did that work out? Typical that I'm worrying about going back already!!

Same here @ozvaldo. I donated to the van, but have been staying away from all things LCFC recently as it's affecting me more than it should for a 30 something bloke. Will definitely donate if refunds cause it to drop back.

Not that anyone will be bothered, but I just released this!

Guess it’s just me who can see some progress then? I’m not sure how much of this can be pinned on Ruud to be honest. Maybe people need to start voicing more concern over those who run the club, rather than digging out every manager we have. Ruud is not the issue IMO.

Just hoping we don’t start 3 CDMs.

Should have been a red, but I’m glad it wasn’t. Don’t need to give Cooper anymore excuses.

Hello mate, read this and thought I had to reply as this was literally me 5 years ago. Work was, and still is, the biggest stressor in my life. I've tried to combat it as much as I can by myself but have sort of accepted that I am just wired that way to an extent - I'm much better than I was 5 years ago, mind. I was giving everything to my job, going above and beyond, and then when my daughter was born everything just got too much, it ended up with me having a full on breakdown to the point where I cut everyone off in my life (luckily, my wife stuck by me though I wouldn't have blamed her for leaving) and a lot of really, really dark stuff happened. I struggled to pin point exactly what caused all of this, but looking back I think it was because I identified with my job so much that I lost who I was - I was so focused on doing a great job, working the long hours etc. that it completely consumed me. Then once my daughter was born, I had a complete identity crisis - I of course wanted to be an amazing dad but I also didn't want to let up professionally and still wanted to be the guy with all the answers, who'd put out all the fires, who'd be the one people turned to. It all got too much and I used alcohol heavily as a coping mechanism which wasn't a great idea. There's two reasons why this post resonated with me so much: 1) I was making time for work, making time for my daughter, making time for my wife, but never making time for me. I needed to recharge, exactly how you put it, but just felt I never had the time. Looking back on it now, I should've taken a month or so off work to properly recharge and been 100% honest with my employer. I'm not telling you what to do but I'd strongly encourage you at least consider doing so, it would've saved me years of repairing my life if I'd done so. I remember just crying to my wife on a Sunday night one time and it completely took her off guard, I kept everything bottled up so much and eventually it spilled out, when I did tell her though I wish I had let her know sooner. 2) Around the time of my breakdown, I was on a bus (no idea why as I drive, but there we are!) and an old couple got on at a stop, and I remember thinking "man, I can't wait until I'm older like that, I can hop on a bus, have little stress, no work to worry about" - I was literally wishing my life away. Where you mentioned about being envious of people in care homes, I agree it might sound odd to some people, but I totally get it. Hell, that was exactly how I felt too! I eventually ended up leaving my place of work, they never knew about any of my struggles so I had to make up reasons why I wanted to leave - and I took a 30% pay cut to be in a less demanding role elsewhere. We struggled like hell for money whilst my wife was on maternity leave and during the following couple of years, but I was happy. I still fight anxious feelings / thoughts and have panic attacks but I feel like I'm in a better place now, and in fact, despite taking a 30% wage cut 5 years ago, I now earn the biggest salary I've ever had. If you can, have an honest chat with your employer / partner and go from there. Some time off to recharge and re-assess sounds like the best option to me. I hope everything works out for you mate, you are not alone.

Reckon we win this.

Honestly? Even if we lost this I was relatively happy with how Cooper has set up and he had me back on his side. ….then he brings Soumare on.

To me he looks like he’d suit being an 8 more than a 10.

OK so nothing changes in that respect then! Wasn’t sure if this would affect that in any way.

Does our 3 year accounting period start from this season now? Don’t see how previous seasons will apply if they’re essentially now void.

So… do we now have a clean slate for a new 3 year period?