Is anyone else visibly feeling and watching the mental health of everyone in your agency decline? Those of us who aren’t laid off are grinding on constant pitches, deadlines are insane, and people are starting to be personally cruel on slack and openly yelling or sobbing in meetings or side convos.
Or was this always agency life but now it runs 24/7 in my home with no breaks. Anyway. I feel crazy and like my whole agency is emotionally breaking. Thoughts lol?

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This was always my agency experience, only there was a facade everyone put on. That's now gone.

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I’m sorry that you’re experiencing this. Working from home it’s really important to preserve your mental health and boundaries. If you can, designate a work space. Take regular breaks. Sign out for the day and leave work behind. You can’t control how other people act but you can preserve your sanity. Do not become an emotional sponge. You’re not responsible for how other people act. Just you. Wishing you good luck.

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People can finally be human you mean? To me that’s progress.

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I get why you would think that. But it’s not being a human in an accepting, healthy way. It’s breaking down and calling people names and people losing the ability to function in an empathetic way. I believe in vulnerability, this doesn’t feel like that.

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Protect your energy. It’s about you now and you have to take care of yourself.

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