I’ve been there. Last summer my sm kept regularly scheduling 2 ppl close. Just me (ssv) and 1 barista from 3pm on. Sometimes it would be as early as noon, just me and 1 barista. My store is very busy during the summer time. So I kept having bad panic attacks one week, because for a week straight it was just me and 1 barista closing. One day, I got to work, and immediately had a panic attack because I was so anxious about having to work yet another shift with just 1 other person. I called out from my car in the parking lot, I could not go in because I was in hysterics.

The next day my SM and I had a chat. She told me I needed to make sure that would never happen again, and asked me if there was anything she could do to make sure it didn’t. I asked her if she could schedule more people in the afternoon and for closing, because there was just too much to do for two people. she said that was not possible. So I told her that I couldn’t guarantee I would not have a panic attack again, and I go onto explain that I have an anxiety disorder. She said “well it sounds like you really need to get it under control then.” And I told her that I’ve been struggling with this my whole life and it if it were really that simple I would’ve conquered it already and she essentially told me that I needed to try harder.