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How to Ask for a Mental Health Day at Work

Request the time you need to rest and recover without getting into details

Deanna Pai
Forge
Published in
5 min readOct 16, 2019

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An illustration of cartoon office workers sitting on their office desks and meditating at their workplace.
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AA 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.

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Deanna Pai
Forge
Writer for

I’m a writer and editor in New York City. You can find my work in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York Magazine, and beyond.