A worker describes their burnout syndrome experience in 2018, when awareness was low, and the legal battle after being fired upon returning from sick leave. No worker should endure what they went through.
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I was having a breakdown, but no one was seeing it. I can share the greatest lesson from that moment. That pain that doesn't bleed hurts twice as much. So at the moment of my blackout, I was sure that the pain that no one is seeing hurts twice as much. Why? In addition to what you're feeling, you also have to deal with the judgment of those who don't see what you're feeling and underestimate it. My case became emblematic. It became very well known. Not because I got sick at work, because that can happen to anyone and no one goes to work to get sick, but the case became known because when I came back from sick leave, I was fired. And that's not cool. And it's not cool just because it's cool. It's illegal from the point of view of a worker who, when he gets sick at work, has 12 months of job security. So that was the biggest problem in that whole situation. Before that, I was a person who gave a lot, had a lot of assignments and results. So I like to say that the diagnosis I received is called burnout syndrome, which today, in 2025, is an occupational disease. Back in 2018. No, back in 2018, first of all, it was a topic that no one talked about. And when they did, they talked like this, right? We can talk a lot about the subject because no one had much information. There was this rumor that is, it is an occupational problem, so this is bad for the environment in which you are working.