You know, there were a number of snarky comments that came to mind. But in all seriousness, if I have ‘family circumstances that my family need to deal with’, you’ll find me in a number of places, but certainly not zoned out from mixing alcohol and prescription meds, lying in the streets of Canberra swearing into my phone. My family wouldn’t stand for it, and my employer wouldn’t stand for it, if I somehow dragged them into the mix. They wouldn’t merely ask me to ‘consider taking personal leave’.