A tip for your professional/academic life

When communicating with a manager to call in sick, or asking a teacher for an extension, you shouldn’t give more detail than is necessary. If you have an emergency and can’t go in for example, you say just that (“I have a family/medical/personal emergency”).

With employers you don’t really want to give them more personal information(and potentially something they can use as a reason to get rid of you) and it can affect how seriously you are taken. ESPECIALLY if it’s a mental health thing.

And teachers or professors in college usually don’t need/want to hear in detail what’s wrong.

This is good advice for anyone but especially for us, since we have the tendency to overshare/communicate with blunt honesty. I hope this is helpful.