Have you ever taken or seen someone take mental health leave (medical leave)? How long did they take?

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I did - I took a month off.

I was a high performer before everything went down so I at least had rapport with my team. But I told my senior manager about personal things and she was actually the one who encouraged me to take some time off, and then the partners supported me.. You’ll have to say a reason why to HR at least (but that was because I wanted to get paid and so it was treated as a medical leave), but not to anyone else (in theory I didn’t have to tell my SM / Partner).

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