I remember a discussion at work where my boss said on IRC "how do you know when you're having a nervous breakdown?" The other four of us, his sysadmin team, we

I remember a discussion at work where my boss said on IRC "how do you know when you're having a nervous breakdown?" The other four of us, his sysadmin team, we have all worked so hard we had a breakdown from it. It's a hazard of the job: it draws people into overdoing it. We told him to sign the fuck off for four weeks, with possible antidepressants. (He didn't, but he did take his next two weeks off without logging into IRC.) I've had depressive and stressed periods and I'm happy to publicly say so, so this is not secretive but normalised. Watch your coworkers and take care of each others' well-being.