Kristen had to find a new human resources representative when her first one questioned her symptoms.
Transcript
I was dealing with an HR rep that was COVID-focused. Her job was to deal with the COVID pandemic, sort of thing. She seemed very supportive, and she was doing weekly check-ins with me, and then at one of our weekly check-ins she said, “Are you sure you’re just not depressed?” And that was it for me. I couldn’t – I didn’t want to talk to her anymore. Again, it was that gaslighting conversation, because I told her I couldn’t get out of bed and there were days when I would just be bawling on the phone to her and she thought, oh, maybe you’re just depressed. And I thought, OK, well, maybe I am, but it’s because I’m so sick. So, at that point, I switched to a different HR rep, who was much more supportive, and he was actually great. He had colon cancer in his early thirties, and he understood chronic disease and getting over something so difficult, so he was a lot more pleasant to deal with.
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