can you document and apply for disability?
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Pages1
#2
General Discussion / dealing with my boss
June 06, 2015, 01:34:55 AM
I teach in a small rural school in Wisconsin. I am extremely successful as my readers improved an average of two years growth and my math students gained an average of a year and a half. I have been under attack as a teacher for the last five years. My PTSD is Complex PTSD as I suffered through six years of childhood sexual trauma. I did not handle our legislature's attack on teachers very well.
I have a new principal who is a former guidance counselor. I went to him before school and told him I had PTSD. I went to him again two weeks after school started and told him again. I went to him a third time with a printout of PTSD information from the Job Accommodations Network after he had me in tears and hyperventilating in front of my students. He looked at the print out, in which I had highlighted items that directly dealt with my triggers, symptoms and job accommodations, and tossed it back to me.
Now there is a formal document in my file, complete with a signed diagnosis from my psychiatrist, and a three page plan of action. However, today, he basically told me I had to "get a better grip on my PTSD." I was crying in his office because he didn't comprehend why I couldn't instantly come to him when I felt threatened by him. "You need to just get over it," was his advice. When I told him that PTSD doesn't work that day and that I couldn't even go near the office for a week after a February confrontation, he had no empathy and said he couldn't help me if he didn't know about my issues with him. I went on to tell him that PTSD is okay if you're a soldier, but otherwise you're not truly recognized as a person in need.
I am a strong union member. I just don't know how to handle this fellow. His wife is a childhood trauma expert, yet he can't treat me with compassion for my six years of sexual trauma as a child. He gave the excuse that he's a man and he just doesn't "see" those things.
Am I wrong to think he's just WRONG? How can I deal with this?
I have a new principal who is a former guidance counselor. I went to him before school and told him I had PTSD. I went to him again two weeks after school started and told him again. I went to him a third time with a printout of PTSD information from the Job Accommodations Network after he had me in tears and hyperventilating in front of my students. He looked at the print out, in which I had highlighted items that directly dealt with my triggers, symptoms and job accommodations, and tossed it back to me.
Now there is a formal document in my file, complete with a signed diagnosis from my psychiatrist, and a three page plan of action. However, today, he basically told me I had to "get a better grip on my PTSD." I was crying in his office because he didn't comprehend why I couldn't instantly come to him when I felt threatened by him. "You need to just get over it," was his advice. When I told him that PTSD doesn't work that day and that I couldn't even go near the office for a week after a February confrontation, he had no empathy and said he couldn't help me if he didn't know about my issues with him. I went on to tell him that PTSD is okay if you're a soldier, but otherwise you're not truly recognized as a person in need.
I am a strong union member. I just don't know how to handle this fellow. His wife is a childhood trauma expert, yet he can't treat me with compassion for my six years of sexual trauma as a child. He gave the excuse that he's a man and he just doesn't "see" those things.
Am I wrong to think he's just WRONG? How can I deal with this?
Pages1