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Massive anxiety. Going back to work tomorrow

Magnolia1

I am a teacher returning to work tomorrow after the summer holidays and my anxiety is super high tonight. It is an inset day tomorrow and therefore it is all adults and lots of " How was your summer ?" 

Any ideas how to calm down tonight and how to cope with tomorrow?

Someone told the deputy head something I said last term so I don't know who to trust any more and that is making it worse. 

  • in reply to Magnolia1

    Ooh yes I am well known for having my own seat!  Right at the back,  in the corner,  away from people! 

  • in reply to Bagpuss7

    Hi. It was ok. I hid a lot. I went out to the toilet whenever they did activities that involved moving around and mixing with people and I managed to keep the same chair most of the time.

  • how'd it go? Mine wasn't too bad - skipped 2 sessions which helped me pace myself

  • I also work in a school and had the same anxiety and sleepless night! I’m in a new year group, working with a different teacher AND in a completely new school building... so many changes!

    If you’re reading this now- you survived! :) hopefully tomorrow will be a tiny bit easier! 

  • Hi I'm working for myself but alsoreturning this week. Been so grumpy all day I hate how snappy I am with everyone :(

  • Hi, I know how you must be feeling, I have been off work for a while and am awaiting an access to work assesment. My take is that I have another job in mind and people that know me will understand others, well, they don't matter. Good luck to you I hope all goes well.

    Try taking a stim toy and/or talking to a trusted friend about your concerns. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, hope all goes well.

  • I don't know if it's much help but I always find that deep cleaning and tidying up helps mute my anxiety as it gives my brain something to concentrate on.

    When I was younger in my secondary school years I would suffer immensely with what I called "Sunday Night Blues" the fear of going back to school on a Monday morning so I always tidied my bedroom thoroughly every Sunday night to try and calm me down often getting distracted by magazines reading in the process and making sure my Commodore Amiga 500 was polished and neat on my desk etc.

    Even these days I still suffer badly if I've had a weekend off work or a week with my levels of anxiety but once I get to work the day after and get into my routine I find I calm down a bit and then when I get home it's like Agggghhhh a big sigh of relief.

    I also watch YouTube videos of anything that I am obsessing about or have a good long read taking in information off websites which help tire my mind before bed.

    Hope you manage to find something to calm you. : )

  • in reply to Bagpuss7

    Thank you. Hopefully tomorrow is only being talked at in the morning and the afternoon is getting the school ready for the kids tomorrow. I am lucky as I am not a class teacher (I teach music during PPA) so I am not teaching this week.

    There is just a lot of unknown tomorrow and Thursday. (I only work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

  • Hey I'm a teacher with inset tomo as well!  I'm fortunate that my HT is very supportive and also a few other key colleagues. So they know I might skip some of the sessions during the day if it's too much. 

    One little sneaky white lie I have used in the past before I'd told people was feigning illness so needing time out.

    I hate the small talk too and try and avoid those I know persist in asking.  I usually go for something neutral like good,  you? " and hope they then witter on rather than asking me questions. 

    Hope it goes well.