And those jobs were actually productive jobs, unlike the majority of bureaucratic jobs, which are anti-productive.
BOO HOO HOO!
Posted on 03/17/2025 4:14:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Every morning, one federal employee wakes up and wishes she had not. She has lost 20 pounds and says she is traumatized.
Another employee, an Iraq War veteran with PTSD at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says he has gone from loving his work to considering taking his life.
A third is struggling to sleep and has stress headaches, fearing the loss of a job he once thought was guaranteed as long as he met his targets.
The three are among a growing number of federal employees who say their mental health is suffering as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to cut and streamline a service from which he had promised to remove waste before his election.
Sarah Levine-Miles, a psychotherapist who works in a clinic in North Bethesda, Maryland, told Newsweek she has seen a noticeable increase in federal workers and their family members seeking mental health support.
"Many are experiencing heightened anxiety, depression, and a profound sense of hopelessness due to job insecurity and the feeling that their dedication to public service is being disregarded," Levine-Miles said. "For those in the probationary period, the stress is even more acute. Their families, too, are deeply affected, navigating emotional and financial strain."
"Being able to plan literally anything than my next breath would be a privilege," said one government worker.
Another, a defense health agency employee who has worked for the government since she graduated high school in 2002, told Newsweek her colleagues were increasingly turning to medication to cope with the stress.
"Everyone is so hostile at work now; tempers are raised, and people are literally yelling at each other," she said. "We're all dealing with nonstop anxiety."
To cope, she added: "I sleep a lot. Eat a lot. Cry the whole way to work and the way home."
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Getting laid off by the bloated government: cheaper than Ozempic!
grow-up, crybabies
Traumatized by less than a guarantee of lifetime employment!
Damned elitists. They are all mentally ill. Good riddance.
To cope, she added: “I sleep a lot. Eat a lot. Cry the whole way to work and the way home.”
…so nothings changed except the part about work.
Way back in the mid 80s, when I had just joined the USAF, I recall hearing a SNCO and a Major talking about getting Federal jobs when they retire and how they would be “set for life.”
Most were already mental cases.
It would be interesting if Musk could get past HIPAA regulations and run a report on how many Federal employees are on psychiatric meds.
rats and thier sick agenda has conditioned these people from school age to adult.
If federal employees are this weak, they should be terminated. Our country needs strong Americans, not suicidal bed wetters. Get Em Out!
Oh no..not mental health
Leaving the GS service in 2013...I would say about 10-percent of the people I worked with...had some form of PTSD (probably from their military years) or anxiety/stress in lower forms. But I’ve conversed with folks in the postal ‘trade’ and caterring business....finding similar statistics in general.
B-O-O. H-O-O.
I simply dont remember any sob stories AT ALL of the tens and tens of thousands of independent contractors who lost their jobs when Gavin signed AB 5 in 2020. The press didn’t touch it ... it’s like it never happened.
These boo hoo stories are designed to make the reader feel sorry for the victims of DOGE. Our grand children will thank them for their sacrifice as the 36 trillion deficit is retired.
My recent experience with federal workers is that they are unbelievably obsessed with that damn email telling them to list 5 bullet points covering “what I did last week”. Mental churning about the unfairness of this utterly fascist request seems to eat up all 8 hours of their working day.
I was prouder of Americans before the phrase “Mental Health Struggles” became the coin of the realm in public discourse.
You should see a modern college classroom. “Mental health struggles” is what bonds them together.
If they have mental issues now ,they had them before .
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