Scripts
How to Ask for a Mental Health Day at Work
Request the time you need to rest and recover without getting into details
Published in
5 min readOct 16, 2019
A few weeks ago, I felt — off. Not sick, exactly, but not like myself. I was unfocused. I was tired. I’d worked a series of six-day weeks, was drowning in emails, and couldn’t seem to muster up the motivation to do anything.